Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desert dominates The Passenger--it seems to sprawl everywhere except for the lush, over-cultivated scenes in England. A key to Antonioni's method, the desert offers no insights in the Eureka-gents-now-you-understand-the-movie sense. It serves, besides suggesting a million metaphorical possibilities, simply as a stage: anything Antonioni dots it with becomes the thing on which the audience must focus its attention. And so the film crawls along agonizingly, a slow methodical parade of pictures to be explored. The pace itself gives Antonioni's existential tendencies time to flower into unmistakable statements, momentary images which...
...Vienna on his way to garnering over 130 chemical patents. His pioneering work with soybeans led to discoveries ranging from a drug for treating glaucoma to aerofoam, the Navy's fire-extinguishing "bean soup" of World War II. But he was best known for his low-cost method of synthesizing cortisone, which made him both a millionaire and a major financial angel to the civil rights movement...
...Louis catch flounder in Gill nets. April through September; then it's cod season and they alternate between the nets and trawling with baited hooks. Hooks are a last resort since the bait is expensive, the method laborious. A day often lasts from five in the morning until seven at night, and they must go out every day. Nets are left out for a day, then hauled into the boat and reset. A day only lasts until one in the afternoon, and the day in between they mend nets or work on the boat...
Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, director of Radcliffe admissions, had difficulty trying to pin down exactly what it was she looked for in applicants. The admissions officers have no hard and fast rule or method they use in evaluating prospective Harvard and Radcliffe students. The final decision is made in committees where the staff members spend long hours debating candidates qualifications. But before reaching that stage, the application has undergone a process that began months earlier...
...KAFKA's short stories, an explorer arrives in a small, poor, and remote country, garrisoned by soldiers who wear uniforms that are much too hot but that serve as reminders of a faraway home. The ruler of this country has invented an ingenious method of punishment, a sort of harrow that cuts the text of a broken law into the lawbreaker's flesh. The script is so intricate that it takes a full twelve hours before the lawbreaker is dead...