Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Follies, a mediocre musical, tried and tested by formula and dipped in commercialized nostalgia, appears on Broadway, and you hail it as a breakthrough composition [May 3]. I am intellectually affronted by this kind of premature journalism, which offers categorical answers to questions not even raised...
Since the coaches couldn't agree (they even re-opened negotiations in the Franklin Field grandstand after the Heps meet), the seemingly simple top-two formula was used. What the formula resulted in was the selection of 21 Men of Harvard for the 31-man squad. It also meant that outgoing Captain Walter Johnson, who ran third in the high hurdles behind teammate Dewey Hickman, will stay behind, and New Captain Bud Wilson, who ran second in the 220, won't be able to go because he was 2 seconds behind freshman Austin O'Connor, who will get the trip...
...most passive reduction plan yet developed occurs in the 112 Trim-A-Way figure-controlling salons across the U.S. The ingredients: strips of cloth and a secret chemical formula. The method: wrapping. The results: a guaranteed loss of two inches the first session, five by the fifth. The naked customer is marked and measured by a white-smocked technician, who then takes rolls of wet linen and firmly wraps her in oversize bandaging from the ankles up, pressing the fat upward. "It really is tight," reported an impressed client last week. "You wonder if gangrene...
...danger of disappearing. Faced with strong competition from Thomson's Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, the Astor-owned Observer is given only a marginal chance to survive, as is the daily Guardian, which this week celebrates its 150th anniversary. Despite frantic efforts to revitalize its formula, the venerable London Times ran $2,400,000 in the red last year, bringing Lord Thomson's total losses since he bought the paper to a reported $17 million. "There should be only four national newspapers in Britain today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to have more." Time...
...time, and the songs always belong to the characters who sing them. Time called him "Broadway's supreme lyricist" and it is beginning to seem like an obvious statement. But Sondheim is also Broadway's master composer, which fewer critics seem to realize, perhaps because he refuses to write formula AABA melodies unless they are parodies (although all of his parodies are infused with great love for and understanding of the material...