Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relatively unstructured Scottish debate format emphasizes the strength of rhetoric and style instead of the structure of the arguments. It is characterized by interruptions and more direct confrontations than the American format...
FEMALE-LED LIGHT-ROCK ENSEMBLES became a staple of the late '80s with the success of records by 10,000 Maniacs and Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians. The newest album from THE SUNDAYS, Blind, shows an unexpected durability of that format as well as a band that succeeds by smartly playing from its strengths. Sundays lead singer Harriet Wheeler deserves much of the credit. Front and center is her floating, shimmering alto, unfurling like a silken ribbon and ringing like brass. Her lyrics are ordinary but agilely delivered. David Gavurin's well-balanced compositions and sweet, guitar-led arrangements provide...
...capturing images of world leaders, celebrities and members of vanishing primitive tribes. His style is well suited to such serious subject matter -- intimate pictures using textured backgrounds that give his work a painterly quality reminiscent of Rembrandt's emotional canvases of the kings and prophets of the Bible. "The format is respectful," says Coupon. "Therefore what you have is a more revealing portrait of a person...
...deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid a '50s TV variety show -- a format joylessly re-created. For the movie's fans, this is a sad waste; for others, a crashing bore...
...corner of the customization market is booming quite like the one for booms, zooms and wisecracks. There are already more than a dozen programs offering a wide variety of sounds for Macintosh computers and Windows-equipped PCs, and more are on the way. Most follow the same basic format: they display a menu of dozens of prerecorded sounds and, next to that, a corresponding menu of "system events" the sounds can be linked to, from start-up to shutdown and everything in between...