Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aftertaste, though, is something like the last four drinks in a ten-drink evening: They tasted good, you think, but damn if you can remember what was in 'em. Son of a Son of a Sailor takes no chances--the formula worked last time, sent him from Paul's Mall to the Music Hall, frontal-assaulted the Top Forty, and paid for a new sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff...
Terrorism has seriously afflicted Italy for four sorry years, but no instance of kidnaping, extortion or assassination has ever before so enraged the nation or so threatened its tenuous political posture. As chairman of the Christian Democrats, Moro was the architect of the carefully devised political formula that had finally brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority. A law professor, he was noted as a conciliator and master of the anomalous solution that enabled disparate political forces to find common ground. He was, in fact, the leading candidate to succeed Giovanni Leone as Italian President...
...outline, the film has a predictable air about it, it should also be said that it isn't half bad. There is a crisp professionalism about David Greene's direction, and the writers have done without that bane of the disaster-picture formula, the subplot...
...more above certain federal guidelines be forced to pay the same amount in penalty taxes. The guidelines would be reckoned by taking the annual rate of productivity increase in the employer's industry and then adding one-half of the nation's prevailing inflation rate. By that formula, the guideline for overall industrial wages would be about 5% (that is, the rate of productivity increase added to one-half of last year's 6% inflation rate). The plan's authors reason that a hold-down on wages would be the surest means to reduce the inflation rate. As Wallich told...
...Sounddance" expands the formula to include the weight of bodies in relation to each other, exploring the way movement modifies when it encounters other movement. Here, the knotting and swirling, folding and unfolding of two or more dancers works a flowing balance between frantic spinning and the entropy of falling weight. The individual dancer is buffeted helplessly, like a banner flapping in the wind; but the linkage patterns of clasped hands and wrapped legs modulate into a series of intricate resolutions...