Word: formula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharpest departure from western formula: oldtimer Gabby Hayes as a bank president...
...what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find out he was doing this." But, said Miss Bentley, he brought her "scraps of paper"-notes about aircraft production-and once he brought her "a formula for making synthetic rubber from garbage...
...their support level. Though grain prices, on an average, are still three times those of prewar, the Government is required to stabilize them at that high level by grain buying and loans to farmers. Moreover, as industrial prices rise the support level will rise too: the complex parity formula ties farm-support prices to industrial prices. In effect, the Government may soon be required to force up grain prices from their present levels...
Street is a workmanlike, exciting show, but basically it does not seem different enough from a lot of crime fiction to be worth all the documentary bother. Semi-documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...
...know, in a little more detail, just why these Southerners felt so contrary; what their neighbors thought of them (and vice versa); what their relations were with the Yankees ; and how they managed to survive as long as they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister (Julie London). An intrepid editor and duelist (Van Heflin) waits Redhead out and finally gets...