Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fundamental formula behind both of these magazines is that pornography is alluring because it stimulates imaginations. Good pornography usually conveys a total atmosphere. Nothing is less arousing than a full frontal picture of a penis, but what is arousing is a person enjoying his or her body, alone or otherwise, against a background that suggests warmth, strength, luxury, and happiness...
...sabotage the Geneva conference and to embarrass the Arab "establishment," which includes Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein. The latest hijacking was one of several that have coincided lately with international meetings among Arab government leaders and others who might find a formula for peace. On the opening day of the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Algiers last September, Black September gunmen attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris, took Saudi hostages, and finally surrendered in Kuwait. On Nov. 25, as an Arab summit meeting was under way in Algiers, terrorists seized...
Another suggestion for mitigating the payroll tax's regressive nature comes from Brookings Institution Economist Richard Nathan. He would increase the wage base from which deductions are taken to as high as $25,000 and work out some formula to reduce payments by less affluent Americans. A more likely solution is a plan that would give workers earning up to $5,600 a special income-tax credit to offset Social Security levies. Such a plan was included in the Senate version of the bill raising benefits last month, but it was dropped by the Senate-House conference committee...
MOST ENGAGING CHARACTERIZATION: Peter Falk's rumpled, resourceful Columbo (NBC), which freshened the overworked cop-and-crime formula...
Next Plane. Extradition is, by theory and by treaty, a judicial and diplomatic minuet, in which all the refinements are respected. In practice, as the narcotics cases suggest, it is often otherwise. The formula used to be that the expelling nation put the fugitive forcefully aboard "the next direct ship." In 1930 New York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary...