Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the program also had its limitations. According to Reuters, an assignment to create ads for a classy brand of cat food resulted in images of the cat food in a formal ball room and of cat food teamed with Count Dracula. Do either of these examples describe true creativity? If creativity means creation in a vacuum, then no. However, very little human creativity may come out of a vacuum. The most powerful literature does not always deal with subjects never considered before, but often presents common experiences in a slightly different light. If a formula can make you look...
...announced Tuesday that she is soon to take the historic step of leaving the President home alone to start campaigning for New York's Senate seat from her new Westchester home (she says they'll rejoin each other on the weekends). The First Lady said she'd make a formal declaration, including the announcement of her platform, early in the new year...
...these the Harvard-Yale weekend festivities? The Game tailgate has served food to 1,000 people each of the last three years, and the shuttles to the Harvard-Yale game at Yale transport over 800 people back and forth from The Game. Is the staff calling the first-year formal a mediocre event? For the past four years, this event has averaged an attendance of 1,000 people--more than 60 percent of the first-year class each year...
...singing on the album, but that's only one of the surprising things about him. "My background musically?" he repeats, and laughs, "I played the French horn in high school for six years." Beyond this musical experience, and a few years in show choir, Bennett has had no other formal musical training; he taught himself how to play the guitar six years...
...Vicky rents the first floor of a white, three-story house. There is a small front yard with bright orange flowers that a chain-link fence separates from the sidewalk. Photographs cover the walls in the living room. The pictures show relatives in formal Greek military uniform, several weddings and Katerina--infant photos, yearly school portraits and photos of her as a ballerina. "She stopped lessons last year. They're just too expensive," Vicky said. Katerina's bedroom is full of toys and other contraptions. "She has everything she'd ever need," Vicky said. "My dream is to take...