Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ominous. The talks apparently concentrated on three crucial points: 1) finding a formula that would guarantee that the North Vietnamese would make at least a token withdrawal of forces from South Viet Nam after a ceasefire; 2) the question of whether political prisoners held by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's government must be released; 3) the powers and duties of the proposed National Council of Reconciliation that would supervise the postwar elections and a new political arrangement for governing South Viet Nam. Also debated were the problems involved in establishing cease-fires in Laos and Cambodia when...
...show is probably the best detective series on TV. Unfortunately, it is not quite good enough. Though Falk is a delight to watch in one of the medium's meatiest roles, the writers frequently fail to support him with plausible scripts or the final surprise that their formula demands. Beyond that, the producers have made the mistake this season of sometimes running the show for two hours rather than the usual hour-and-a-half. It is a burden that not even Falk can carry. Enough is enough. Like an English pubkeeper at the closing hour, someone should shout...
...would not be detailed in writing. This would preserve the Hanoi fiction that there are no North Vietnamese troops there. Thieu insists that all such troops must be removed and that this be guaranteed in print. Kissinger in Paris this week undoubtedly will be pressing for some compromise formula, presumably one that would make the unwritten understanding more explicit. A knotty related problem is whether Thieu will be required to release all political prisoners now held in South Viet Nam. It was revealed that another key question had been resolved in the earlier secret talks: the DMZ would be preserved...
...controversy snarling around him, Shula looked over his new team, which had a modicum of talent, a minimum of organization and a miserable won-lost-tied record (3-10-1) in 1969. "I'm no miracle worker," he announced. "I don't have a magic formula that I'm going to give to the world as soon as I can write a book. I'm not a person with a great deal of finesse. I'm about as subtle as a punch in the mouth. I'm just a guy who rolls...
...wears 50 years of achievement as easily as one of his old tweed jackets. Indeed, he seems almost cherubic, a stocky, gentle man with a merry twinkle in his blue eyes. The more celebrated Walter Gropius was a teacher; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built crystalline monuments to a formula of his own devising. Unlike them, Breuer has touched and warmed contemporary American life by following a simple philosophy: "Architecture is a social art. It has an obligation to people...