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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point is that it is not time for the clubs to die, but rather to evolve. the final clubs were a bold experiment, a revolutionary country club-like method of dealing with individual differences, but they still are only one step on the path to social nirvana. My method to complete the process is called Project Final Final Club, or PFFC for short...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...frenetic Sganarelle done with wooden poles and bedsheets to his Wilsonesque The Juniper Tree with its giant, inexplicable rhinocerous, has been original and rewarding. He has no distinctive stylistic trademark other than a fertile imagination and a refreshingly practical understanding of the stage and stage practice. His one consistent method, common with auteur directors, has been to rely on classic texts. A playwright can't argue with a ground-breaking interpretation of his text when he's been dead for a century...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...expected, it took a while for Vinton to realize the inventive possibilities of his sticky form. The first half of the Festival, sadly omitting his Oscar-winning short Closed Mondays, gets bogged down in an interminable mini-documentary explaining his method and then some truly clayey early pieces, in which his artists inexplicably try to make the figures look and act just like real people, which is silly, because real people can't explode their heads and come up smiling and these figures can and it seems silly to waste the talent...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: On Film | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...first many of them found "speech" necessary only in cases of extreme hunger, but the medium was soon recognized as an extremely useful tool for education. There were, of course, experiments with whale noises and certain annoying thwangy sounds, but "speech" quickly became the most prevalent method of audio communication at Harvard...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...often at jobs found by the local government, but maintains more of the trappings of confinement, such as dormitory life and security checks. In Indiana, where there are ten such centers, offenders do prison time first, with the hope of work release as a carrot for good behavior. That method lets the state consider, through observation and psychological testing, which inmates are likely to succeed in the program. "We want to see how they'll perform," says Vaughn Overstreet of the department of corrections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Considering The Alternatives | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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