Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next number before the murder-to-be was even presented. At the end of the parade. I applauded wildly. Was this not expected of me? I definitely must catch this to see all the heads roll and the blood spurt. And having noted each murder's place and method. I'll know exactly when to buy the popcorn so I don't miss a thing...
...make great gestures toward making the medium into some sort of genuine art, or at least some genuinely stylish entertainment--but that's about as far as it goes. It's just not a form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore. In a medium populated by yahoos of the most defiant sort, the rest of us cannot help feeling like minor league aristocrats. Maybe we watch to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we watch to feel superior...
...billion. "We get a lot of calls from crackpots with ideas, though only a few friends get through to me," Bronfman told TIME Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer last week. One intrepid inventor, for example, suggested that some of the money be given to him to pay for marketing a method for freeze-dried taxidermy. A real estate firm offered Bronfman New York City's World Trade Center, which may be placed on the market for $1.1 billion...
...natural" hues-as natural as those of color photography-Close applied three overlays of standard color, in effect, three monochrome portraits painted on top of each other: first red, then blue, then yellow. The illusion rises quite automatically out of the method. Seen against the plodding, laborious character of the day-to-day work, which requires up to a year for one finished painting, it has a more than hallucinatory quality. "I want the thinnest, most ethereal possible paint film, with colors built by superimposing one color over another so that there's almost nothing there-you could take...
...object of Bicker, according to a booklet published by the clubs themselves ("Now That You are Eligible"), is to discover "personableness in the individual" and "congeniality of the total, section." It is a method for assuring each club that any student to whom it offers a bid is of the "club type...