Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay by Daniel Waters (a find) offers all that and much more. It believes, like J.D., that "the extreme always seems to make an impression." Its language is extreme -- a voluptuously precise lexicon of obscene put-downs and dry ironies -- and so is its scenario, which adjusts the teenpix format to accommodate subjects as bleak as copycat suicides and killer peer pressure. Heathers finds laughs in these maladies without making fun of them because Waters writes from inside teenagers. He knows what makes them miserable and what makes them bad: that they are already adults but can't accept...
Although I dislike in general advertising that appeals to sexual insecurity, I have to applaud the folks at Johnny Walker for the latest of the series, which ran in the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It follows the same format as its predecessors--two handsome men discussing the allure of a new sexual prospect. Except in this ad, they're referring to another...
...also for the yearning of the whole Moscow drama world to break down the confines of habit and tradition. Everywhere one goes in the theater these days, the same artistic self-criticism is heard: there are almost no vibrant new playwrights or imaginative directors, the basic style and format of productions have not changed in the past quarter-century, beauty and splendor have been forgotten...
Things seemed to be proceeding smoothly for Afro-American studies at Harvard; after gaining faculty approval, a formal Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies was set up to outline the new concentration's specific format...
...must give teachers more power to decide what they will teach students," Nikandrov said, adding that in the existing hierarchical format for education, principals decide "practically everything...