Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon's remarks at his press conference last week, if studied closely, indicate the willingness of the U.S. to follow the May 8 formula if an agreement on certain adequate guarantees can be reached. Said Nixon: "The settlement will come just as soon as we can possibly get a settlement which is right, right for the South Vietnamese, the North Vietnamese and for us, one that will have in mind our goals of preventing the imposition by force of a Communist government in South Viet Nam and, of course, a goal that is particularly close to our hearts...
...zany a bit of pseudo Americana abroad as a Frenchman could have conceived. Opened by Advertising Tycoon Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet in 1958, Le Drugstore offered an expensive boutique, books and magazines, a restaurant that served hamburgers and banana splits, and a department for prescription drugs. The formula worked so well that Paris soon had a flock of "Drugstores...
...primarily a painter of the human figure; when one appears in his work, as in The Model, 1939, she is treated as an object among other objects; the light and shadow fall on the face as they might on a Braque jug, bisecting it, reducing it to a formula with out - or perhaps beyond - personality...
...paper, this formula-ridden show has everything against it. A poor Jew named Bernie Steinberg (David Birney) marries a rich Irish Catholic named Bridget Fitzgerald (Meredith Baxter), while the four meddlesome in-laws, instead of cutting into the wedding cake, cut into each other. Surprisingly, the formula works, and Bridget Loves Bernie, whose ethnic humor descends from Abie's Irish Rose (the long-running comedy of the '20s) down through All in the Family, is one of the brighter comedy spots of the new season...
...many Christians, the Van Greenaway Judas will not only seem bizarre but blasphemous: in the Judas gos pel, it is Judas, for instance, who utters (in a somewhat different context) the Eucharistic formula for the Last Sup per. Yet Van Greenaway's anticlericalism is usually witty, and only occasion ally foolish...