Word: tooled
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...sort of fearlessness has also deepened my work. In Eve's Bayou in 1997, I played a crazy old hag who practiced voodoo. With my face painted white, I was extremely unattractive. I had to work differently, dig deeper, when the tool I was used to relying on--my looks--was taken away. Before the cancer, I would never have allowed a director to destroy what I considered to be Diahann Carroll. But I felt replenished by the role...
...reports of false positives rather than false negatives, which could make an innocent person look guilty. The fact of the matter is that all law enforcement uses polygraphs. In my opinion, if it is performed by a person who is highly trained and expert, it is very informative tool. But though it should be used for investigative purposes, it should not be used in the courtroom. It is a good, useful technology but it's not perfect...
...going to make the doctors happier because they can practice medicine the way they were taught, without withholding care," he says. "Most importantly, it's going to make the patient happy, and make them feel like the doctor is their advocate, not a tool of the insurance company...
...Christmas-season release in Seoul. For girls who can't get enough of the Titanic heartthrob it's a "fantastic illusion," says Kim, who began his career at 20th Century Fox promoting Die Hard II the old way, via billboards and newspaper ads. "The Internet is the movie marketing tool of the future," he says. "If you aren't on top of it, you won't survive...
...already had part of the answer. Patient study had revealed that some orangutans were avid tool users, for example employing short sticks to shave stinging hairs from the fat-loaded fruit of the neesia tree. This was a skill that seemed taught by one generation to the next, not inherited. In other words, the orangutans had culture, previously the single greatest distinguishing mark of humanity...