Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formula is certainly familiar, but the reaction, in this case, has unexpected impact. The husband is George Segal, by far the most deft American actor of light comedy, as he proved recently in Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love (TIME, June 25); the divorcée is Glenda Jackson, whose virtuosity and energy dazzle. Together they make an elegant pair of amorous antagonists, their smooth skills bringing great fun and fresh surprise to the sort of material that can always use a good professional refurbishing...
...then the war ended, and with it ended the immediate chances for a successful activist upsurge. No sane person would exchange a resumption of the genocide in Vietnam for the increased activist prospects it would bring to Harvard, but no new formula for unity was found to replace the old one. NAM sputtered about, groping for a new basis for the old alliance...
...published in September, Berlin is a longer and more elaborately plotted version of the Hunt formula and the Hunt style ("He was back, as the saying went, to square one"), but it is a notch above his usual work. Hunt's hero this time is ex-CIA Agent Neal Thorpe, who returns to the spy game to save Werber's beautiful stepdaughter Annalise (who knows too much). He loves espionage ("He was alive again") but loathes politics. When Thorpe snorts in disgust at a mere mention of the U.N., his mysterious CIA boss, "the man called Smith," replies...
...idea has obvious problems-for one, even the most talented brokers cannot make much money for clients during a deep market slide-and Perot admits he has yet to come up with a formula for putting the policy into effect. Meanwhile, he is moving ahead on other fronts. In order to create a new breed of brokers for his firms, he has established a $14 million-a-year training center in Los Angeles. So far, it has graduated 72 students; a new class of 600 will start the six-month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says...
...trans substantiated the history of abstract expressionism in creating an answer to the basic question "What is cinema?" Although academic film communities have identified with the analytical "specular text" -- the examining, form-destroying discourses -- of Godard and sentimentally embraced the "naive texts" of nostalgic cultural mythology, for example formula movies of unrestricted genres, Brakhage and the New American Film Movement he leads have been unappreciated by the academic eyes of verbal bigotry...