Word: formulae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From 40,000 Fathoms...
Dealing out annual awards, the American Society of Civil Engineers honored, with a prize for outstanding research, University of California Professor Hans Albert Einstein, 54, son of Physicist Albert. Engineer Hans's contribution to science, more down-to-earth than his late father's famed E = mc2 formula, was "to the knowledge of transportation of sediment in flowing water...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11--A new Western formula for a Big Four foreign ministers conference about Germany provides for including German representatives as advisers, opening the way for possible compromise with the Soviet Union on German participation...
...Perfect Furlough (Universal-International) is an almost perfect formula farce. The formula...
...Office TNT Scriptwriter Stanley Shapiro and Director Blake Edwards (This Happy Feeling), two of the most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...