Word: formulaic
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These perplexing questions may now have been answered by two scientists using a standard aerodynamic formula. Assuming that Pteranodon weighed only 40 Ibs. (it had an extremely delicate skeleton), Geologist Cherrie D. Bramwell and Physicist G.R. Whitfield of the University of Reading in Berkshire, England, used the formula to calculate that the beast had to attain an air speed of only 15 m.p.h. to take off. In winds above that velocity, they report in Nature, Pteranodon would only have needed to spread its wings to become airborne, easily taking off from level ground or the crest of a wave. "Thus...
...Zabriskie Point structurally (and wisely) resembles Eclipse more than Blow-Up. Probably fearful of juggling both American Youth and radical advances in construction and style, Antonioni returns to a familiar formula: the people are cipher-like, of less consequence to the film than Hemmings in Blow-Up or Monica Vitti in Red Desert. and are often unsecing guidse through elusive situations in abstract environments. Also, we can parallel the student strike footage with the stock market scene in Eclipse: like the earlier film, Zabriskie Point balances personal travelogue with formally spectacular set pieces. The scenes of Daria driving through...
While making clear what it did not want, the court has been far less enlightening on what it does want. Though it has indicated its dissatisfaction with the "tokenism" that places a few blacks in a previously white school, it has not attempted to lay down a formula for acceptable desegregation. Lower courts have also been vague, and seemingly contradictory rulings have been issued by the Fifth Circuit Court. One holds that where segregation is the result of past patterns of residential discrimination, the schools must go beyond mere rezoning if that alone fails to achieve a better balancing...
...mark to meet any new challenge to civil rights, have largely kept quiet. Their silence in part reflects the general confusion and uncertainty over the turnabout. More important, it shows that for increasing numbers of black leaders and thoughtful black citizens, integration is no longer the magic formula it was in the heady, exultant days following the 1954 Brown decision. There is a new sense among blacks of the limits to what integration can achieve-and a deepening division in the black community over what course to follow...
...point, the formula has succeeded. In the past decade, for exam-)le, the ranks of college students have more than doubled, and the number of Americans officially classified as "poor" nas declined substantially. But the elit ter of growth has begun to tarnish...