Word: formula-ridden
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...there a duller or more formula-ridden artist in America than Salle in 1991, as he approaches the Big Four-Oh? His work, essentially, is a decoction from three other artists. From Robert Rauschenberg's combines of the '50s and his silk-screen "collages" of the early '60s, Salle learned about piling unrelated images onto a canvas, the difference being that Salle hasn't a trace of the lyrical sharpness and poetic force of vintage Rauschenberg. His tone is a supercilious droning, very far from Rauschenberg's enthused, life-enhancing Barbaric Yawp...
Thunder, quite simply, is Top Gun II, the continuing adventures of Tom Cruise and his ongoing relationship with fast motorized vehicles. Once more, the entire cast is back: the same cocksure motorcycle-riding Cruise, the patented Simpson/Bruckheimer ethos, the guitarladen soundtrack, and the same formula-ridden script...
...paper, this formula-ridden show has everything against it. A poor Jew named Bernie Steinberg (David Birney) marries a rich Irish Catholic named Bridget Fitzgerald (Meredith Baxter), while the four meddlesome in-laws, instead of cutting into the wedding cake, cut into each other. Surprisingly, the formula works, and Bridget Loves Bernie, whose ethnic humor descends from Abie's Irish Rose (the long-running comedy of the '20s) down through All in the Family, is one of the brighter comedy spots of the new season...
...political if Sig and I or Phal or Gorden disputed anything, it would be whether the film was commercial or not. We learned something from him--he's been in the business 25 years you know. On the other hand we pulled him into come ideas that with his formula-ridden thinking he didn't think would work...
...Banish Kapitalizm. Solzhenitsyn is a rare master of the Russian language ?not the debased, impenetrably formula-ridden Russian produced by two decades of Stalinist newspapers, schoolbooks and speeches, but the rich mother Russian that calls on all the ancient, all the regional, and all the poetic