Word: methods
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Landiss's main problem is that he overacts-perhps at Pullum's insistence. Certain scenes reach an emotional level which is entirely too high. The play seems to peak every five minutes, leaving the audience on a lurching roller coaster. And Landiss's method of attaining these misplaced emotional peaks is awkward. It is as though someone told him the only thing an actor can do to increase intensity is talk faster or louder or both. Landiss fails to realize that in many scenes a well-placed whisper can be more effective than an ear-shattering, rapid-fire sequence...
Some cineastes have problems dealing with Altman's distinctive technique of mixing several reels of simultaneously spoken dialogue together, a trademark that captures the actual quality of everyday conversation far better than any previous method used. The dialogue often sounds garbled however, a built-in hazard that has dismayed actors as well as viewers (e.g. Warren Beatty's post-production grumblings about the sound in McCabe & Mrs. Miller). When I first screened Welcome, I listened closely for this technique and failed to notice it. Rudolph subsequently told me that the method in fact was used; if true, then...
...Nostrand's solution is "functional writing," a teaching method that focuses on drilling students in the art of getting a coherent argument down on paper. The method, now taught at Brown and a dozen other campuses, is not designed to produce future Mailers and Bellows but simply to help budding scientists, engineers and business managers learn to use the written word...
...training manual." But students generally find the course helpful. Says Wheaton Freshman Tricia Dunn: "It really makes it clear to me what I'm doing when I sit down to write." Others praise the close supervision, which gives the course the feeling of a private tutorial. Yet the method also has its critics. A common complaint, voiced by another Wheaton student, is that the repetitive drilling can be "a terrific bore and is not exactly creative." Admits Katherine Feeney, a Van Nostrand instructor at Brown: "Sometimes the students feel that it's all too structured." But, she adds...
...historical continuity for his argument. The 18th century world of Samuel Johnson preparing speeches to recite to his friends becomes that of Richard Nixon assuring the American public he is a good man with only Dreyfus, unjustly accused of a public crime for private reasons, in between. Through this method of historical "postholing," Sennett presents only the finished products--the public personality at one end of the continuum and the private at the other--but none of their overlap. The upshot is that these two "separate molecules" of society remain worlds apart in a way that Sennett at first advocates...