Word: formation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future: sharper sound, better production, more finesse with image and story, more time as performers move away from the clip to the album-length format. All these are easy enough to predict, with certainty. But it is not easy to see where this will end. Indeed, there is the strong sense it may not end at all, that the forms will keep mutating, that the big screen and the small will shape, share and shift sizes, and that music will be the common ground...
...loosened up. MTV now plays Prince, Eddy Grant, Clarence Clemons and Donna Summer, and only last week added four more black artists. But the situation is still less than ideal. Says Carlos de Jesus, program director at New York's WKTU-FM: "MTV says their programming is just format. But they have no equivalent competition, so there's no equivalent place for black music...
...days," says Cameron Blodgett, executive director of the watchdog Minnesota News Council, "the way to deal with a complaint about a mistake was to yell, 'There's a nut on the line,' and hang up." In the past few years, many newspapers have created a standing format for corrections. The Louisville Courier-Journal runs its admissions of error on the front page of the local news section under the headline "Beg Your Pardon"; its sister paper, the Louisville Times, uses the blunt designation "We Were Wrong." Some newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer...
...Queen's distinctly informal role fits the summit's deliberately improvised format. Almost the only rule of Commonwealth summits is that there are no written rules and no formal votes. Instead, the leaders, who represent one quarter of the world's people, gather for a week-long discussion about matters of mutual concern. The summit's closed-door sessions are conducted on a first-name basis and, of course, in English. Actions are taken only by consensus...
...Head races are difficult because you row against an unknown opponent," said Struart Petersen, explaining the race's format. "A lot of these boats have been rowing since August--a full month before us," he added...