Word: methods
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...networks' trade-off for free access to broadcast spectrums worth billions of dollars. So the new network schedules seek to lure guys within those constraints. There are cop shows and action shows, series set in casinos and boxing rings. Fox is relying on male-oriented sitcoms like Method & Red, with hip-hop stars Method Man and Redman. NBC unveiled Summer Olympics promos that made swimming and gymnastics look like X Games events, and its midseason sitcom The Men's Room examines male issues and anxieties from what its president of entertainment, Kevin Reilly, says will be a sophisticated perspective. "This...
...whispers. In a pop culture consecrated to Don Juan, he seems the grayish professor - a wan don. His plays, for stage and TV, are subtle comedies about daft people (The Madness of George III, The Lady in the Van) or lost ones (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads). His method is understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely." Yet an argument can be made (though never, never by Bennett himself) that he is the foremost English playwright...
...Georgi tries to maximize this interaction is the Personal Response System (PRS), a method pioneered by Harvard College Professor Eric Mazur which allows students to respond in real time via remote control to multiple choice questions. Georgi said he uses the responses to gauge whether his students understand the day’s material and to track student performance throughout the semester...
...DEVELOPED. A method for raising POISONLESS FUGU, or blowfish; by researchers at Nagasaki University; in Japan. Fugu, which can kill a diner if prepared improperly, is prized as a delicacy. Scientists have found that the fish's toxin can be eliminated by replacing its bottom-feeder diet with one of mackerel and sardines...
...world." And he fought back, transforming himself psychologically. "I realized I was just playing the game with everyone else in a race," he says. "But I needed to be the master of my own strategy, to make it my competition, to make them respond to me." Method became his mantra, steady speed his trademark. "I have to know exactly the effort I'm putting out at 30 km, at 40 km," he explains. Plätzer praises his technique: "He looks exactly the same at 1 km as he does at 50 km. He keeps his rhythm." His training...