Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take a tank. It kind of gives me a stop." Other Daniel clients combine the tank with traditional talk therapy before and after the Epsom bath. Though few have followed his lead, Lilly used the tank as a supplement to his own Freudian therapy. "It carried the psychoanalytic method one step further," he said last week...
...practical realities of the era. Neither the United States nor the U.S.S.R. would allow free elections; they would have preferred to a make Yugoslavia another Latin American-type political chessboard with commensurate violence between the vying ideologies of each superpower. Tito did avoid this dilemma by the questionable method of limiting freedoms, but Djilas falls short of substantiating that a better state had been possible...
...good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon dentists would pull a tooth by the "painless method," or so said their...
Boyer first came to public attention in 1973, when he and Stanley Cohen of Stanford University helped point the way to such miracles. They devised a relatively simple method for taking genes-which contain instructions for one or more inherited characteristics-out of one living organism and splicing them into the genes of another. The resulting hybrid, usually a variety of the common bacterium E. coli, then makes the substance ordered up by its new gene. So powerful a tool is recombinant DNA, as it is called, that the rapidly proliferating bugs can act like little microbial factories churning...
...RAGING BULL is, as the advertisements would indicate, Robert DeNiro's movie. DeNiro combines all the wit and spontaneity and genuineness of a Method actor like Brando with all the craft and attention to detail of an Olivier. You become oblivious to the devices he's using: the way he takes the windmill motion of bodypunching, for example, and turns it into LaMotta's leitmotif. Things that DeNiro did to prepare for the movie--learning boxing well enough to become a good club fighter, for example, or gaining 60 pounds or whatever to play LaMotta in later life--have almost...