Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Welcome to Wherever You Are, INXS returns to this familiar formula and creates a rather unremarkable, but enjoyable, collection of pop music...
...album signals a welcome departure from their most recent polished products, Kick and X, but this time the basic INXS formula that made their earlier sound to distinctive does not bring with it any of the intensity of The Swing or conceptual force of Listen Like Thieves...
...TITLE IS ENVY. Iago, weep. In her second book -- her first was last year's best-selling Damage -- British novelist Josephine Hart has concocted a silly piece of romantic formula and fitted it out with enough heavy portents to sustain a Greek myth. "They say the veil that hides the future from us was woven by an angel of mercy," she muses. Or, "Novelists of our own lives, making ourselves up from bits of other people, using the dead and living to tell our tale, we tell tales." And this is only in the prologue...
...details standing in the way of a Yugoslav settlement. All these things came to pass, and Eagleburger was pleased by the strong international unity demonstrated. But absent the use of U.S. military force, which he fears could lead to another Vietnam quagmire, none of these steps will guarantee a formula for changing Serb behavior soon, and he knows it. "To a degree I think we're in the midst of a Greek tragedy," he says, "which had a beginning, and somewhere will have an end, and a lot of people are going to die in the meantime...
...approach the family-values question, it may be necessary to remember the formula of F. Scott Fitzgerald: he said the sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to retain two mutually contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to function. The two mutually contradictory but simultaneously valid ideas involved here are these...