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...Ramones albums A's, and both NY Dolls Albums A-plusses. So what? He explains himself in a few sentences. There's non of the tortured delving into non existent souls. He trashes trash, and embraces fun, genius, and things between. I totally sympathize with the capsule summary format, and prefer it when writing. It's often ludicrous to spend any longer on an album, and how many people read beyond the good/bad label? How many people are even reading this...
...sipping champagne at an afternoon celebration, Bloembergen and his colleagues attributed the recent rash of Nobel Laureates--seven in the last three years--to Harvard's demanding tenuring process, which they said winnows out all but the most stellar of scholars in a manner similar to the Nobel selection format of the Swedish Academy...
...neither are they stupid, nor oblivious to funny things. And in People magazine they found a focus that perfectly complements their backgrounds. As many people have pointed out before, People is merely paper-television, with identical subject matter and similar format. In the parody, the Poonies walk on comfortable and familiar ground; they have found a subject wedded to their talents. The glee, combined with the compulsive energy, with which they pursued their task appears throughout the parody in pleasing excess. It may be hard to imagine the Poonies as houseguests, but with the People parody, the Harvard Lampoon...
...turnstiles clicking again after the seven-week players strike, baseball devised a unique "split-season" format. Teams leading their divisions when the strike began were declared "first-season" winners. They would meet the "second-season" or poststrike winners in mini-play-offs for the divisional championships...
...questionnaire has a statistical format--students are asked to rate aspects of their personalities, interests and goals on a scale. "Results will be reported for large groups of students, rather than for individuals," Zuckerman said...