Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freer trade is Clinton's magic formula for prosperity; being stripped of his negotiating powers will be a victory for Dick Gephardt, labor unions and all the other Democratic demons of the Carter-Mondale years that Clinton's 'global economy' supposedly vanquished...
Phenomenon recaptures the formula that has made him so durable--a sharp, effervescent mixture of bouncing party anthems, street-corner bravado, bawdy tale telling and, not least, smooth romantic ballads. Rap, often misogynistic, generally has little use for romance, but LL found a way to make it work, and it became his signature. In fact, his initials actually stand for Ladies Love Cool James. Although he'll probably always be remembered for high-decibel party hits like 1985's I Can't Live Without My Radio, three of his biggest smashes--I Need Love (1987), Around the Way Girl...
Whereas the Soviet Union claimed this formula in the name of socialism (the official culture of the U.S.S.R.), China now claims it in the name of Chinese culture. The masquerading of structural violence (which can be eliminated) as part and parcel of a culture is one of the most pernicious lies of this century. It duped many Americans for many years about the Soviet Union...
...There's no use trying to dance around it," he said. "The only formula that guarantees U.S. citizenship is statehood...
...Michener began writing Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories that won him the Pulitzer Prize and Rodgers and Hammerstein's attention. Location, location, location was Michener's mantra: Hawaii, Alaska, Poland and, yes, even Space are a few of his titles. Michener rarely wavered from the formula that sold 75 million copies of his 40-odd books: he traveled to a chosen place, researched it exhaustively, then wrote workmanlike tomes peopled with real and imaginary characters. "There are a whole lot of things I'm not good at," he said. "I'm not hard in dialogue...