Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Network's young lust-and-angst formula a winner; MSNBC tries to copy, but Monica's no Felicity...
...formula employed by the Goo Dolls to create this album of Love Songs has been to address almost every song to one person, presumably whatever girl is being "dizzied up," and to permeate each line with the same type of dark, tortured, adolescent, I-love-you-why-won't-you-let-me-in infatuation. "I wanna kick at the machine/That made you piss away your dreams/And tear at your defenses/Till there's nothing there but me," declares Rzeznik in "Dizzy," and so on he bellyaches throughout the other 12 songs on the album. "They press their lips against you/And...
Some of the work itself became tedious--Kochhas a tendency to fall into endless strings ofparallel declarative statements, such as in "OneTrain Can Hide Another," where he cycles throughdozens of variations of the title's formula, "oneX can hide another"; it's easy to see how he canwork so well with children, handing outassignments such as "a poem in which every firstline begins with 'I wish..."--but the readingitself was never disappointing. Koch was charming,and funny; even when his work became homiletic, orsubstituted a joke for real development, he kepthis audience thoughtful, alert and entertained...
Merton, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on a formula that calculates the risk and value of given economic decisions, was one of 16 partners of the investment group and was directly affected by the collapse...
...leaders of the Undergraduate Council say this semester they will stick with a formula that worked: short debates and visible student services...