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...James Franco) is a male prostitute come home to New Orleans after a two-year Army hitch. He wants to put the sex business aside, but he's good at it, and it's the only trade he knows. No surprise here, in the story or the actors' doggedly Method manners. Sonny's main interest is Cage the director returning to the tone of the indie films that gave Cage the actor his wild-man start--in films that he stopped making when he became a movie star...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...Guillermo Torres, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Center who worked on the OGLE, or Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, said the method was less complicated than previous attempts to find planets...
...suspect that Brando's mannerisms were thought out, an expression of the Stanislavski Method, while Presley's were symptoms of his nervous energy and naivete. To look at the young Elvis exposed, and exposing himself, on national TV (they can be seen in Alan and Susan Raymond's 1987 documentary "Elvis '56") In his first TV shows, he puts the mask of insolence on his stage fright. He rarely smiles. He seems simultaneously determined and stricken. While introducing a song, he audibly cracks his knuckles. His singing voice, so at home in the recording studio, shivers audibly behind...
...sense, of course, the Bush Administration is anything but timid. From outside the U.S., the principal method that Washington has chosen to move toward its worldwide goals is very clear. It isn't diplomacy, and it isn't money for Middle East partnerships or seminars in legislative procedures. It comes in a uniform, and it delivers high-technology munitions...