Word: formality
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...Council and HoCos must come up with a formal plan for the tailgates in time for a meeting on Monday with Boston Police Department (BPD) officials, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said...
...last formal campaign speech, Latham sought again to distance himself from the risk-taking and record of past Labor administrations. "No adventurism. No cockiness. Straight down to work, putting our plans into place." In the end it wasn't enough; Australians weren't convinced they needed a change. At the Howard celebration on Saturday night, businesswoman Sarina Russo summed up the mood: "When you're getting such great results, why change anything?" The swelling Green vote - set to be around 7%, compared with 5% last time - suggests many Australians want more attention paid to issues such as the environment, processing...
...fact, what Taniguchi has delivered is a building that offers MOMA to the world as the global headquarters of Modern Art Inc. With its long, immaculate planes of charcoal gray granite and milky white glass, his museum emanates taste, restraint, formal intelligence and authority. Those are occasional values of contemporary art as well. Then again, so are effrontery, vulgarity and obfuscation, with occasional detours into buffoonery, kitsch and porn. If it's at the heart of MOMA's mission to continually sort through the muck, it will now do so in a building that says the art world may have...
...20th century, a slightly more sophisticated approach had come into vogue, whereby critics attempted to locate meaning within the work of art rather than in a set of external conventions. Known as “formalism” because of its emphasis on formal qualities, this approach posited that the more you pay attention to the formal characteristics of a given piece, the harder it becomes for you to simply regard that piece as a transparent vehicle for conventional meaning. The ultimate problem with formalism, however, was that its emphasis on formal qualities did not amount to genuinely granting...
Enter George W. Bush. At the U.N. last week, Bush spoke, unusually, of an ongoing "genocide" in Darfur, Sudan. The President was drawing on an investigation carried out by the State Department. When Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a formal finding of genocide to Congress on Sept. 9, he was doing something no senior U.S. official had done before. "When we reviewed the evidence," Powell said, "we concluded--I concluded--that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility and that genocide may still be occurring...