Word: method
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This piecewise method of exploring the personal histories of Koltsovo's residents and their families has the remarkable effect of compressing time. Echoes of a Native Land is not a particularly quick read. The narrative reflects research and experience spanning 17 years of the author's life. Yet by not relating the past in chronological order, Schmemann is able to condense 200 years of history into the blink of an eye. As a whole, this compressed history expresses a sense of waste and of sadness for communism's unfortunate effects on Russia's fate and for the country's difficulties...
LONDON: Back in 1991, the IRA tried to shell 10 Downing Street. Now their political representative is using a more conventional method to gain access: Walking in the front door. Following their controversial handshake in Belfast two months ago, Tony Blair invited Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to pop round the Prime Minister's residence Thursday for a cup of tea. Talk about historic ? it's the first time since the partition of Ireland 76 years ago that any member of that party has been near Downing Street. Without a mortar bomb in hand, that...
...game and now a movie looming in the future, "Scud" is obviously one of the success stories of the competitive world of independent comics. And, unusually, it's succeeded not through literary depth or through the invention of strange new worlds, but through sheer attitude and its own idiosyncratic method of drawing together the disparate threads of popular culture. There's a prevailing opinion that genius consists less in originality than in the ability to bring together what's already in the air, giving it a new life of its own. According to that point of view, Schrab must...
...soft spot for people in need. With the help of his diminutive mentor (Danny DeVito), Rudy evolves into an ethics-driven Superman--a lawyer with a heart, out to save the world from evil. First, there is his bold attack on a gargantuan insurance company that has a method of denying claims until policyholders give up. Rudy is astounded by the corruption of such a company that refuses to pay for the medical treatment of a young man dying of leukemia. But one heroic task is certainly not enough for a Grisham leading man. In the process of his assault...
Another intriguing method involves harvesting not a woman's eggs but bits of her egg-bearing ovarian tissue. Like egg freezing, this procedure could preserve fertility for women who know they are about to lose their ovaries. It could be used on females who are far too young to produce mature eggs--girls who are undergoing radiation treatments, for example. In theory, the tissue could eventually be placed back in the body and lead to successful pregnancies. (This has been done in sheep but not yet in humans.) Men's sperm-generating testicular tissue could also be removed, and presumably...