Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cory Stone '79-3, organizer of the petition drive, said yesterday that the Nestle Corporation, known for its chocolate goods, is creating an artificial demand in Third World countries for the infant formula it also produces...
...spokesman for the Nestle Corporation yesterday denied that the infant formula was not useful. He said that it supplies a baby with necessary vitamins which it would not receive from the milk of an undernourished mother...
...women who dreamed of escape to a better life. These days the genre lives on, but in a much revised form. Instead of women, the protagonists of these films are now men, young Italian studs who break out of ethnic urban ghettos to become Somebodies. It's a formula that has already produced a pair of smash movies, Rocky and Saturday Night Fever, as well as new stars to go with them. Bloodbrothers is the latest entry in this sweepstakes, and it too has a fresh young actor, Richard Gere, in the lead. If lightning fails to strike...
...every scene becomes a climax, every speech a tragic monologue. Each psycho logical motive is spelled out; no events are left to the audience's imagination. As a result we remain outside the characters and eventually start to question their authenticity. The film's ending- true to formula but false to Price's novel - destroys whatever credibility remains...
...have a couple of favors to ask you, Savo, and I'm prepared to pay big bucks. First of all, I want your secret formula for predicting Ivy League football games. It looks like I won't be able to graduate summa cum laude as a predicter, as you did, but it would be nice to get a magna. Hell, at this point I'd take CLGS...