Word: methods
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...educators are striving for just that purpose—to educate—then I wonder if the traditional, all-encompassing exam at the end of the semester is the best option, since it seems to trigger a behavior quite oppositional to efficient memory development. While this examination method has been and continues to be debated, as a sleep researcher who understands the beneficial effects of a full night of shuteye, I can’t help thinking that logic, backed by scientific fact, must prevail...
Wish's students, who are selected on a first-come, first-served basis, learn to play by ear, not by reading music--a kind of Suzuki method meets the Rolling Stones. They almost immediately start improvising and writing surprisingly good songs--an 8 year-old's composition, Little Dinosaur, downloadable on littlekids rock.org is a child-size Sgt. Pepper's--era Beatles tune. The musical styles range from rap to folk rock. When a classmate plays a moody new original at North Star one morning, "it makes me think of some old Bob Dylan stuff," says Jessica Dunston...
Zwick believes that choosing to portray the past through the eyes of an outsider, as is done in both The Last Samurai and Glory—in which the white protagonists become the minority—serves as a useful method of underscoring the contradictions of the time...
Crowe is not a Method actor ("I work between 'Action!' and 'Cut!'"), but he does take his preparatory obsessiveness to the set. On the first day of Master and Commander, he handed out three shirts to each cast member and ordered them to return in 24 hours with name tags sewn on them as a way of getting them used to taking orders from him. "It was kind of done with a wink," says co-star Billy Boyd, who plays a coxswain. "Kind of not, too." Crowe says he does this kind of thing a lot and that...
...keep the masses away. He eschews flashy videos and meetings with radio programmers who might promote his music and frequently omits his most popular songs from his concerts just to give the devoted a glimpse of his stubbornness. He also releases great avalanches of material when the approved method is to pace oneself. Rock N Roll, due out Nov. 4, is typical Adams; the songs are all ache and attitude--classic-rock gold--but Adams has paired them with a simultaneously released, 14-song EP, Love Is Hell, which he accurately describes as "suicide music," a series of pulseless love...