Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller, speaking after a one-year trip through China, said that the tendency in Chinese theater to "overact" and play to an audience was the biggest difference between Chinese and Western theater. He added, however, that there seems to be a fusion taking place of this "presentational method" with a "more realistic Western method," in which actors work with the "fourth wall...
...Pope's theme of youth is an arresting direct appeal from the head of the Roman Catholic Church to youth who have sought material or physical solutions to their problems, Rimkus said. The Pope chose this method purposely to encourage many young people to try to find their answers through the Church...
Passion Play is Kosinski's seventh novel and we see more method to the madness of human grotesquerie that has always decorated his pages. Kosinski writes about the dark shadow self--our violent urges, homosexual lusts, transexual curiosities, murderous inclinations, heterosexual explorations, and, inevitably, our intense fear of surrendering control of the flesh and bones that give us life. None of these themes is new to Kosinski; what's new is the lucidity and restraint with which they're developed. Passion Play is his best novel...
Pavarotti's method of appeasing Di Nunzio's sense of duty is to whistle a phrase, to show that he is at least thinking about music. Even while cavorting in the pool, Pavarotti whistles. Finally they get to the keyboard for some detailed drilling on the score. But soon a pungent aroma drifts in from the kitchen where Anna, the cook, is at work. "The day is a crescendo reaching its climax at lunch," says Di Nunzio. "Lunch is very important. Luciano will be singing a phrase, and abruptly he gets up, still singing, and walks away. Luciano...
Moon encourages this international "unification" of church-linked enterprises as the final method for the Unification Church to gain worldwide influence...