Word: formatives
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...with a bunch of friends on a 45-in. screen? Much was made of Soderbergh's experiment with Bubble--a minimalist, low-budget, no-star movie that opened nearly simultaneously in theaters, video stores and homes. And people didn't go for it in any format. Shyamalan sees a lesson there: "Bubble had $10 million worth of free publicity. Bubble had the advantage over any independent movie of its same ilk. It had so many advantages, and still it didn't perform. If Bubble did well, wouldn't that have been evidence that day-and-date works? Well, they tried...
...outsiders who appropriate rap forms without a nod to their numerous predecessors are ostracized. Though these sequential links are vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional exhibition format is likely to do, is antithetical to the genre’s amorphous structure. Underground pioneers the Wu-Tang Clan hint at this dilemma when they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clich?...
...format in the qualifiers worked to some players’ disadvantage though, according to Hagamen, as a fencer might happen to be lotteried into a very difficult pool of contestants...
Austin agreed that the format change shook things...
...Despite the home turf advantage for Harvard, it was an uphill battle for the team with lower initial rankings than we had expected due to [the] new format for the event,” she said...