Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final rotation of the round-robin format tourney, BC did its duty, keeping Harvard's winless streak alive with a 3-0 trouncing of the Crimson, while Princeton upended Brown...
Teams from Brigham Young University and Williams College were the only squads to challenge Harvard's stranglehold on the top spots, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively. The tournament's format featured Jeopardy-style questions and answers...
...requires only two. He was dignified and well informed, had his points in order and managed to sound and look at least as presidential as Bush. Though Perot's witticisms clearly won the first debate, Clinton was equally clearly the winner of the second, partly because it followed a format that he suggested and had already mastered: questions from an invited studio audience of selected uncommitted voters...
Bush tried but ran afoul of a format for the Thursday-night debate that Clinton had suggested -- reasons for which swiftly became apparent. Questioners, from a studio audience specially selected to consist of 209 uncommitted voters, quickly made clear that they were in no mood to listen to personal attacks. Early on, after the President again chided Clinton for organizing protests against the Vietnam War as a Rhodes scholar in England, one citizen asked, "Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud?" Thereafter, the debate settled into a remarkably civil exchange far better suited...
Nothing unusual about the format: half an hour's worth of satirical sketches linked by little more than the writers' love-hate fascination with popular culture. But instead of the usual everyone-is-equal ensemble cast, the show boasts an unabashed star. Stiller, 26, the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, plays the lead in nearly every sketch and provides linking - commentary in supposedly ad-lib back-lot conversations with fellow cast members. What's more, rather than performing live or on tape in front of a studio audience, Stiller works mostly on film, which gives the show...