Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students mention Memorial Hall's architecture, it is usually in the form of a complaint. Yet now, the design of the building so many have called ugly and an eyesore is celebrated in a forthcoming murder mystery with accompanying illustrations...
...drawing-room thriller once breathed haltingly in the hands of such skillful practitioners as Agatha Christie, but even ignoring its dubious dramatic value, the form was always limited. Having exhausted all possible realistic variations, it is not surprising that the thriller playwright has had to turn the form in on itself, self-consciousness being the last available twist. The character of Andrew Wyke, the bigoted, infantile, impotent detective novelist in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, was the logical culmination of the mystery-writer's view of himself in a world where such structured escapism has become frustratingly antiquated...
...Plastic Surgeon Burt Brent, 39. His case is also among the most difficult that have confronted Brent, because of the savagery with which the ear was hacked off and the infection that followed, leaving Brent very little natural tissue to work with. So far Getty's ear form has been substantially recreated, but further surgery to refine both its form and appearance remains necessary...
Indeed, nobody peddling romance in any form seems in grave risk of unhappiness these days. Even books on sex seem to sell best when "joy" is part of the title, and a gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that...
...recent years. Others think that, in some mysterious way, it is related to a conservative trend in national politics; even Jimmy Carter, with his homespun ways, kissin'-cousin courtliness and studied gentility, is given credit for restoring some sentiment to the land. To many, the search for form and formality, the yearning for tradition and sentiment, are part of the mysterious emotional process by which the nation is healing itself from the bruises and fatigue accumulated during recent years. Those years produced, in numbing succession, the civil rights upheavals, riots, assassinations, the Viet Nam War, Watergate, oceans of porn...