Word: formality
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...NCAA does and should have other considerations, such as making ad revenue, when making programming decisions. It is unreasonable to demand that the NCAA substantially alter its advertising for a very modest reduction in underage drinking and a small increase in safety. While we do not support putting formal restrictions on the NCAA, we believe that it has a responsibility to its viewers and the public to adhere to a standards befitting a collegiate organization. The beer ads that it runs should promote safe drinking, and it should not target people under the legal drinking age. That said, Faust...
...Alliance (CHA) brought heated debate to the Council’s weekly meeting last night. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker introduced a proposition requesting a “dollar-to-dollar review” of the funding that the Council provides to CHA, citing CHA’s lack of formal accountability to the Council and its recent decision to remove obstetrician-gynecologist services from three of its 12 neighborhood clinics. The Council approved Decker’s measure with an amendment requiring the city manager to clarify the Council’s arrangement with CHA. Founded in 1996 from...
...ideas is great not only for me as a writer but for the actors too. And you can plagiarize legally. I personalized the script for my own taste.” Green’s personal touch is evident through his encouragement of improvisation and abandonment of the formal script. He readily welcomes “mistakes.” “I like it when people mess up their lines” he said. These surprising elements lend an individual flavor to a movie which is centered on the much-trodden themes of relationships, love, and loss...
...shorts depicted absurd situations and had a trippy feel. In one, actors emerged from a metal tin of spaghetti wearing pink dresses and were doused in tomato sauce. Then, the container blasted off into space like a spaceship. The silliness of such films, which contrasts with the avant-garde formalism of his earlier projects, was a point of interest for the audience. In the question-and-answer session following the screening, one viewer addressed this issue, pointing out that the comical shorts not only appeared radically different from the style of films like “The Flicker...
...five children / no she’d had six one died.” The line break marks a change in the direction of thought, whereas the extended space reflects a progression in the internal logic. Used to focus Paley’s speech, these formal elements carefully define a unique interior voice that stays consistent throughout the collection.One of the most striking aspects of the book is its willingness to be overtly political—a rarity for this style of poetry, which lends itself more to reserved introspection. Paley’s activist background blurs the distinction between...