Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues that classical bassists could learn much from the free wheeling devices of jazz and rock, both of which he plays with enthusiasm...
There is no mistaking Bulgakov's target in The Heart of a Dog: it is the boorish, overweening, ignorant, slogan-stuffed Soviet proletarian. Bulgakov wrote this short, scornful novel in 1925, drawing on his inexhaustible supply of contempt. Its method is the "fantastic realism" he was to use later in The Master and Margarita. Matter-of-fact becomes matter-of-fantasy; madly grotesque events are described in the language of naturalism...
...twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect is achieved by using "bird's-eye perspective," a method that relies on three vanishing points instead of one. Though long known, it was rarely used before the 20th century came along with its airplanes and skyscrapers. The viewer thus placed, as it were, in midair, may well feel as though the ground were falling away beneath...
...general air in this second volume of his autobiography is one of diversion rather than dedication, the method more anecdotal than analytical; the result is a rather pleasurable belles-lettres excursion into nostalgia, not a profound exercise in self-revelation. Taken as such, it is rarely dull. In this book at least, written partly in 1931 and picked up again after World War II, Russell is still a master prose stylist and an elegant wit, with a bitchy touch of the Wilde...
...painters of the '20's and '30's, a group fascinated, along with Andre Breton, in the potentialities of the Freudian dream state. At one end of the Surrealist school was the photographic realist Salvador Dali, and at the other was Miro, who employed for a while an automatistic method--that is, he began to paint without conscious thought and then continued consciously after studying what he had done...