Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JINX didn't stop there. A few weeks later, a cute senior called to ask me to a fall formal. Carefully I picked out my slinkiest cocktail dress, matching high heels, and a large vase to hold the armload of flowers he would undoubtedly bring...
Because there is no formal government, decisions are made by the Kurdistan Front, which consists of eight major groups. To create something closer to civil administration, Kurdistan will hold elections on April 3 for its national assembly, which Saddam originally set up just for show. The vote "is also to end the rule of the militias," says Massoud Barzani, head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, the other leading political movement. "When the militia rules, the law does not." But a U.S. analyst fears that instead of burying dissension, the vote may actually accentuate...
...film, adapted from a James Hilton best-seller, captures the growth of an individual in a static society. The film paints the contrast between the formal and intimidating nature of the school and Chips' own warm personality. The slow movement is more than compensated for by the perfect production and direction...
...nature of stone goes straight into Mantegna's formal system. It is hard and precise, never atmospheric: he has none of the mellowness of his relative Giovanni Bellini. None of his shapes are fudged or merely alluded to. You see every pebble and crack in the rocks, and of course every line of expression on the human face; in his Portrait of a Man, circa 1470-75, the folds of the red costume have the density of marble, the eyes are gray agate, and the net of lines around them and on the brow is described down to the point...
When last we left the Governor of New York on Dec. 20, 1991, the planes were ready and the papers were signed. Cuomo's formal entry into the New Hampshire primary seemed certain. "But I don't have a budget," Cuomo explained, and "I have a first obligation" to the people who elected me. "I want to run for President, but I can't." Fast-forward to last Wednesday evening, Feb. 12. The Governor delivers a brilliant political speech at Harvard, and the panting begins anew. In 45 minutes Cuomo runs the gamut from sounding like the liberal Harkin...