Word: methods
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...interview subject, Joaquin Phoenix is like a 1940s high school basketball team: after a few minutes, he gives up trying to score and starts running out the clock. Phoenix is most comfortable discussing his approach to acting--a tortuous, self-invented method that involves avoiding people or things that remind him he is not the character he is trying to play. Eventually, having exhausted his favorite subject and parried the introduction of any other, he announces that time's up. The defensive victory is his. At least he's a good sport. During a moment alone with the tape recorder...
Mention sunflowers and you probably think of the famous painting by Van Gogh or perhaps the tasty salad oil. But Valerie Dupont, a scientist at England's University of Leeds, thinks of hydrogen. Last summer Dupont and her team developed a method for extracting hydrogen using nothing but sunflower oil, air, water and two specialized catalysts. That development may help solve one of the chief problems slowing the advance of the much touted automobile fuel cell: how to provide a clean, renewable source of its hydrogen fuel. The process works by vaporizing oil and water, breaking them down and capturing...
...PRESERVE THE BRATTLE LEGACY CAMPAIGN,” as they are calling it, is an acknowledgment that, to continue to run the obscure films for which they are famous, the Brattle must seek additional community support. Many of the financial woes of the theater are related to the unique method by which films are acquired and displayed. Ivy Moylan, Executive Director of the Theatre, says about 50 percent of profits on ticket sales have to go back to the distributor. Revenue proves difficult when many of the films screened at the Brattle, including those in the “Recent...
Perhaps my instinct to hop on the anti-Fork bandwagon (a smaller, more dilapidated wagon then the Fork model itself) stems from my attachment to word-of-mouth, an age-old method of discovery that necessitates… gasp…real human interaction on some level. If you sit alone and bulldoze through the recent reviews on Pitchfork, it seems to perpetuate the isolationist, ever-headphoned culture that I most concretely associate with those “discovering themselves” on Pitchfork. Spend that time talking and listening to music with other people, branch out and meet...
...don’t advocate its demise. But when that something is as powerful as it has proven to be, it zaps our desire for interaction, spurring us to refer each other to this or that review instead. Abe, remember our nostalgia for the mix tape/CD, as both a method of wooing a crush and of expressing oneself...