Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
B.C.C.I.'s modus operandi for gaining political influence was as simple as its banking methods were convoluted. The formula: money. Abedi found his opening wedge in the U.S. in late 1976, when he looked to Georgia, home of then President-elect Carter, and the rotund personage of Carter confidant Bert Lance. In deep financial trouble with his National Bank of Georgia and beset by regulators for past banking indiscretions, Lance was all too glad to be put on B.C.C.I.'s payroll as a $100,000-a-year consultant. Abedi declared Lance was his "unofficial ambassador . . . brought in to give...
...role that he is hard not to like. Moreover, his presence has helped turn Family Matters into Miller-Boyett's most watchable comedy. His constant grating presence -- the eager beaver who sets everybody's teeth on edge -- has added a dash of vinegar to the cotton-candy formula. Maybe every TV family needs a nerd in the neighborhood...
...there is one U.S. city where people live to eat out, it is New Orleans. Businessman Tripp Friedler and chef Larkin Selman reopened the intimate Gautreau's there just as the economy fell like a souffle in a cold draft. Their formula: combine more expensive main dishes with less costly garnishes, and visa versa. An appetizer of crab cakes, for example, is accompanied by marinated black beans. Caviar is not out of the question, but it comes from a local fish called choupique (pronounced shoe-pick) and is said to be as good as any other American kind...
...Today the world! Tomorrow America!" goes the rueful joke. George Bush seems likely to confine himself to the first half of that formula, at least until after the 1992 election...