Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...deadline as beside the point. Of far more importance to him was Detroit's persuasive case that its citizens had been undercounted, which he said "gives rise to a constitutional violation of the one-person, one-vote principle." He ordered the bureau to produce a "statistically defensible" method within 30 days to correct the count. Barabba is considering whether to urge the Justice Department to appeal the decision. But just in case, he set associates to work on finding a way to carry out the order...
...What Method actor would not love to work with John Cassavetes? His films (Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence) are actors' showcases. His camera waits patiently for the smallest behavioral tic or the grandest explosion of dynamite acting. The characters he creates are compulsive talkers, walkers, smokers, prowling the urban nightscape, their lives a cacophonic symphony of desperation, their aggressions spilling out like a Bowery bum's shirttail. Cassavetes encourages openness, improvisation, the primacy of being over performing. An actor prepares, and the moviegoer watches, and Cassavetes approves. He as much as tells his cast: The screen...
...Tribune to see the editor. After Buchwald explained that "the managing editor and I have been talking about me doing a film and nightlife column," the editor decided it was a good idea and hired him. "In French, it's called chutzpah," Buchwald said of his job-hunting method...
Hejduk insists that he did not venture into fantasy in creating the trilogy, but that the situations represent a distillation of his observations of society. The "Ashes" project is meant to be "a real indictment of the European tradition--of the structure, the method, the burial of thought." The inhabitants of the 13 towers represent individuals caught in pre-ordained social and political roles, locked in historic ritual. The inhabitant of the modern house personifies the 20th-century argument for an escape from history--yet the system subsumes him along with the others. Finally, the citizen who refused to participate...
...mishaps in ten years, two of them resulting in deaths or injuries. At the very least, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas demanded, the Air Force should set up a more effective warning system for Titan II sites. Said he: "Right now we are using the Paul Revere method-word of mouth...