Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the first cry of "Action!" and ending with the final cut, are pacts she makes for art, romance and commerce. Kinski acts on instinct?great instincts?not from technique. "I don't understand acting except while I'm doing it," she asserts. "And sometimes not even then." Her Method is a kind of controlled madness. For her, each new film is a fairy tale she can believe in; she is the sleeping beauty, and her director is the prince whose talent and passion will convince her of the dream's reality. To cast a spell she must fall under...
NORTH EASTON--There was no madness to their method. In fact, there was nothing dramatic, exciting or even half-interesting about the way the women of Stonehill College defeated the Harvard softball team yesterday 5-0, at North Eastern...
Advocates of capital punishment now have a new responsibility to defend this or any other method of execution as humane in light of what happened in Alabama. That the state had tested the electric chair is of comparatively little importance. How does one "test" an electric chair in any case? As with any complex piece of machinery, the only real "test" is actual...
...raises once again the questions surrounding capital punishment, and not only because of its bizarre and tragic circumstances. It deserves not merely a discussion of how to "improve" capital punishment--which would not answer the larger question of mental pain--but also reconsideration of whether there can be any method of capital punishment that is humane...
Bernhard's method is based on comparisons of price-and-earnings data for companies. The Value Line computer ranks each stock against the rest of the 1,700 in terms of short-and long-term price performance and earnings history. Analysts throw in an "earnings surprise" adjustment when a firm's profits depart sharply from projections. Says Bernhard about his system: "It's so simple that I'm amazed and a little hurt that it isn't more widely copied." Some experts, however, ask whether the fact that so many people follow Value Line...