Word: instructional
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...character to play? -Alex Saenz, Tipton, IowaBrick Tamland [from Anchorman] was pretty fun. I just laughed until I cried every day on that movie. And I didn't have to do very much. I just kind of stood there in the background, and Adam McKay, who directed Anchorman, would instruct me to just say whatever I wanted to say, to find an opening and say something-usually a non sequitur of some sort. It could not have been more fun. To play a person who was completely disconnected with reality was just a good, fun time...
...that she wished to express through her pictures the beauty of leaves, which are rarely seen as artistic objects in themselves. “I’m really interested in the crossover of science and art, and this is just perfect...I wasn’t intending to instruct in the beginning, I think,” she said. “I just loved the formal aspects of the shapes, the veins, the lines. For years, I didn’t even find out the real names.” “For the first time with...
...only senior fielder. While Madick is the elected captain, Watkins and Kerper will have to step up and fill leadership roles as well. In addition to playing first, Kerper will be, in some respects, the field general. In the early part of the season that has meant helping instruct the freshmen at second.Meanwhile, pitchers Madick and Watkins will have to provide leadership in different ways. Watkins stresses the importance of providing moral support from the sideline, something that Allard believes she already does very well.“Amanda is a real positive leader,” Allard says...
...Dalai Lama is the rare religious figure who tells people not to get needlessly confused or distracted by religion ("Even without a religion, we can become a good human being"). No believer in absolute truth-he eagerly seeks out Catholics, neuroscientists, even regular travelers to Tibet who can instruct him-he is also the rare Tibetan who will suggest that old Tibet may have contributed in part to its current predicament, the rare Buddhist to tell foreigners not to take up Buddhism but to study within their own traditions, where their roots are deepest...
Once inside Iran, U.S. officials say, Iraqi volunteers hone skills needed to use armor-piercing roadside bombs, mortars and rockets against targets in Iraq. U.S. officials say, in addition, that Quds Force trainers, working at times apparently with experienced instructors from the Lebanese militia Hizballah, also instruct Iraqi recruits in intelligence techniques, sniper shooting and kidnapping operations before transporting them back across the border. Once in Iraq again, militants who have undergone Iranian training reportedly form cells that U.S. officials now refer to as "special groups." These cells, say U.S. officials, continue to receive funds, weapons and direction from...