Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown is far too intelligent to import wholesale the Vanity Fair formula, or to attempt a baldfaced reprise of her resuscitating strategies at that publication. Her New Yorker contains vestigial remains of her predecessors' magazine...
...Cleverness" has become a hackneyed formula, leaving campus publicity a self-defeating game. In order to get to any useful information, one must mine under kiosks full of weak attempts at humor. This problem cuts across the spectrum of extra-curricular activities...
...night to remember last May at the Italian restaurant Bice in downtown Tokyo. The room was agog because among the diners were two middle-aged men, one burly, the other downright fat. They sat around jawing about sports -- soccer, tennis, Formula 1 auto racing. At one point they turned to chat about fashion with a neighboring party of awed Italians. The cause of the stir was that the two amiable gents were the world's most famous opera singers and among the richest and best-known entertainers in any field: Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti...
...People ask if there's a Pudding formula," Nye said. "It is always a musical-comedy, a drag show, and ends with akick-line. But the plot is always different...
There is no formula to gauge whether a student should be admitted or rejected, admissions officials say, and subjective criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal qualities also play a significant role. The Stonecypher complaint takes issue with the soft criteria the admissions office uses, and focuses on the issue of race...