Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of school ought to be willing to take risks with people, because it doesn't affect us," said McArthur. "We can redefine standards. It's not like law school, where it's much more like a formula...
Tori Amos' third major release, Boys for Pele, proves that she can resist the temptation to go merely for commercial success by retaining the same formula of Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink. Instead, Boys for Pele charts her efforts at redefining herself following her break up with her manager Eric Rosse after an eight-year relationship. At the same time, she explores on the CD's 18 tracks a variety of new techniques and forms...
GEOMETRY FOR A ROMANTIC COMedy: triangle involving a married couple and another woman. The French do this in their sleep, maybe in their dreams. Since the formula is so familiar, they know the trick is to tweak it. Remember Too Beautiful for You, where Gerard Depardieu spurns gorgeous wife Carole Bouquet for dumpy secretary Josiane Balasko? This time writing and directing as well as starring, Balasko has wrung another variation on the old gag. Husband, wife, lesbian interloper. French Twist...
...Investments don't happen without savings," Lugar said. "It's sort of the old Econ 101 formula: savings equals investment...
Intensity, by Dean Koontz (Knopf; 308 pages; $25), is expert schlock by a writer who has specialized in horror. No creatures from beyond the grave here, just that reliable old formula, babe in distress. Chyna Shepherd is the sole survivor after a fairly efficient thrill killer invades a house where she is a weekend guest and murders everyone else. She's terrified and unarmed, but naturally, instead of calling the cops, she stows away in the killer's motor home as he escapes...