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What is the moderator's responsibility if the candidates break the agreed-upon format rules? We have at various times tried bells, whistles, everything but cattle prods, and I think rules can sometimes get very cumbersome. We've tried it with no rules, and especially in the late going, they're going to try to do whatever they damn well please...
...movies reside in that once essential, now demeaned genre of domestic melodrama in which family life is a bilious combustion of repressed emotions and grudges that explode into confrontation and recrimination and in which most characters are revealed to be cheating, abused or somebody's unknown daughter. That format, which fed decades of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford weepies, still raises its head occasionally--in the HBO series Big Love or Broadway's August: Osage County. And it's at the soapy, singing center of most Bollywood films. But it couldn't be less attuned to an American movie culture...
That means easing restrictions on how downloads can be used, and on what kind of devices. You'll still need a whizzy Apple gadget to hear most of the music available from iTunes, but Amazon last September began selling tracks in the U.S. in a format compatible with most digital music players. Its catalogue of 3 million songs - culled from all four majors - will be available outside the U.S. later this year; European music fans unable to wait can from this month download such unrestricted tracks by Warner Music and EMI artists from 7digital, a U.K. music site...
...Buzicky said that the format of Beyond Orders makes it particularly accessible to college students...
...Betamax Player was on sale forabout $1300. That same day, there wereabsolutely no adult fi lms available forBetamax on eBay. The reason for this?No such fi lms exist.As few people know, the adult fi lmindustry has had, among other things,a hand in deciding the accepted trendin format rivalries like the famous clashbetween Video Home System (VHS) andBetamax. This sway comes solely fromthe industry’s output. In 2005, adult fi lmsales and rentals amounted to a $4.28 billionrevenue. In that same year, the totalUS motion picture box offi ce gross wasless than $1.5 billion.In order to understand...