Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conway Show, which premieres on CBS this week, is also a witless formula sitcom, starring the ex-McHale's Navyman as pilot of a broken-down, one-plane airline. In the first episode, Conway gets locked out of the cockpit in midflight. Hilarious...
Programmed by Pallas with special Formulae, Crystal resolved even the most Delicate and Naive from among student Life's many Complications. A Compassion Formula, for example, pulled Variants of the Word "sorry" from an international Thesaurus, compared them with Extracts from the University's Book of Rules, and, depending on particular Circumstance, computed a proper Consolation...
...Formula. Along with a younger rival called the St. Pauli Zeitung (circ. 535,000), the Nachrichten carries the sort of news and pictures that no other paper sees fit to print. As basic how-to (and how-much) sheets, the papers are vital to Reeperbahn newcomers who do not know the cost of a "car-strip" girl ($4 to $6) or an all-nighter ($40). Outside of Hamburg's St. Pauli area, where their success lies, the papers have sought to establish themselves as national arbiters of porn. The Nachrichten runs regular reviews of erotic art shows, sex books...
...Pauli papers have been helped by prurient publicity from West German courts, which have fined the Nachrichten more than $1,000 for "encouraging and abetting illicit intercourse." Even without such unsolicited testimonials, the papers seem to have the formula that will eventually drive their circulation past 1,000,000-a readership exceeded by only two newspapers in the Federal Republic. "I don't bother with sports or politics," says Publisher Rosenberg, who has only three full-time $218-a-month writers on his staff. "I give 'em sex, lots of it, straight and enjoyable. You never read about...
Stories about demonstrations are written according to a formula, and they are very easy to write, almost like sports stories. The stories answer these questions...