Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program proves that the animation technique need not impose any stylistic formula on the animator. The mood and subject of these short essays range from the melancholy romanticism of Raoul Servais's Sirene, a tale of love between a mermaid and a flutist after a holocaust, to the wry wit of Kick Me by Robert Swarthe in which the protagonist is a pair of headless legs...
...Foreign Ministry. It was one of the most successful periods of his long career. His role as co-chairman of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which ended the French involvement in Indochina, is described by Historian A.J.P. Taylor as "a beautiful diplomatic operation." That year Eden also found a formula for rearming West Germany that was acceptable to Paris. Labor's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, lauds Eden for "an inspired piece of first aid, which held Europe militarily together...
...balance between the two sides. The whites are entitled to be assured that the transition will be peaceful and orderly and that they will have a place in the country after independence. Blacks are entitled to the assurance that the progress to majority rule will be irreversible." One possible formula, endorsed by Washington, would vest general responsibility for the transition in a British "commissioner" and would require all Rhodesian political groups to swear loyalty to the Crown. Richard and his plan received a chilly reception in Rhodesia. When his party landed in Salisbury, it was ignored by Rhodesian Foreign Affairs...
...Tandy's formula has worked. After a decade of solid but fairly slow growth, the chain suddenly took off; between 1972 and 1976 the number of stores more than tripled. During the company's fiscal year ending last June, profits rose 120%, to $64 million. Radio Shack indeed has almost taken over its parent firm. Tandy Corp. has spun off most of its other businesses into separate companies chaired by Charles Tandy, and now has only minor operations other than Radio Shack...
...Paris-based writers and scientists - meet once a month at well-lubricated lunches to discuss the creation of new literary structures, most of them based on mathematical forms. Asks the group's formal manifesto: "Must we abide by the known recipes and obstinately refuse to imagine new formulas? What certain writers have introduced in their fashion, with talent (indeed genius), OuLiPo intends to do systematically and scientifically, and if need be, by resorting to the good offices of computers." "Structure is the work of OuLiPo," explains Mathemagician Francois LeLionnais, 75, a founder of the organization. "We are not interested...