Word: formula
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...movement, and a good deal of moxie to provide the kind of experience that is rare in any theater. It breaks the barriers have always separated theater from life and actor from audience without the forced intimacy and self-consciousness that killed the efforts of the Living Theater. The formula is simple: instead of provoking the members of the audience into life with insults and forced participation, you entertain them and make them forget about themselves. As the seven actors move through a potpourri of skits, dance and verbal play, their high spirits are so infecting that...
...Formula. Though the details remained secret, these terms were based on five key points: 1) Rhodesia's 5,000,000 Africans will be permitted to make "unimpeded progress" toward majority rule over a period of at least 30 years, 2) the Rhodesian legislature will pass no new laws of segregation or suppression, 3) the political status of Africans-who outnumber whites by more than 20 to 1-will be raised by degrees, with the help of British grants of $12 million a year for African education and economic development, 4) the Rhodesians will work toward eliminating racial discrimination...
...previous discussions, African commonwealth members insisted on a formula for Rhodesia that came to be known as NIBMAR-no independence before majority African rule. The current version might more aptly be called NIBMARIG-no independence before such rule is guaranteed...
...soldier days are over. Last week Pope Paul VI announced a new rite of confirmation that, among other changes, abolishes the symbolic blow on the cheek, apparently because of its military implication. The new words revert to a 4th century Byzantine formula, still used by most Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, that emphasizes the Holy Spirit. The bishop will simply say, "Receive the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit," or some similar translation from the prescribed Latin: Accipe signaculum doni Spiritus Sancti. As for the holy oils, they will now be perfumed, said a Vatican spokesman...
Ever since Playboy invented its formula of sex and pop hedonism in the 1950s, moneymen have wondered just how much cash the magazine and its many offshoots have earned for Hugh Hefner. The answer came last week as Playboy Enterprises, Inc. prepared to make its first public stock offering and filed required financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The underwriter, Loeb, Rhoades & Co., set a "maximum offering price" of $25, meaning that the stock will probably go on the market in November for that amount or slightly less. If it is close to $25, Playboy's creator...