In the mid-nineteen-forties, Rossellini rose to international fame with the seminal works of so-called neo-realism, in which he filmed actors who weren't stars, mainly on location, in stories and with methods that seemed closer to documentary than to fiction.
As he grew older he taught himself new theories and methods that seemed important (such as population genetics, matrix algebra, and computer programming).
We were led by the practice manager in their choice of methods that seemed to fit best with their practice.
There are yet more powerful epidemiological methods that seem even more far-fetched.
Although the background scenery was inserted by rear-projection methods that seem a little crude by modern standards, the sequence is still a remarkable showcase for the gifts of the cinematographer, Boris Kaufman, and the composer, Maurice Jaubert, whose contributions were woven together by Vigo in a manner far ahead of the film's time.
Like many patents from that period (for example those cited by Paul Allen in last year's omnibus suit) these are quite broad in their specificity, claiming methods that seem now to be no-brainer approaches to the task described.
That the Grey Men of Brussels are coming for us, backed by an ideology none of us would share, formed by thinkers none of us have ever heard of, with methods that seem to mainly involve boring us to death.
Based on methods that seem to hold promise, Learning Forward, a national advocacy group that promotes professional development, released a list of new standards for teacher training this year that called for more collaborative, school-based efforts, along with expanded use of technology and the Internet.
It seemed a fairly decent cross-section of the job seeker's market to me, yet I came away feeling bewildered not by the variety of people in attendance, but by the array of methods that seem to have been devised to screw those people over.
However, our results reveal clear differences between the imputation methods that seem likely to be generalizable to other datasets.
But it is easy to use that term also to legitimate a series of events, contacts, encounters and methods that seem largely due to chance at the time, and in ethnography much is due to chance.
