Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California, high school teaching, and coaching at Brigham Young. John Walker, the popular Harvard diving coach, is again doubling as the Radcliffe coach. All three coaches work as a team and feel that through a combination of their aquatic knowledge and coaching approaches, they can provide a successful formula...
...musings on success. It is one subject that he knows all about. Students of the Motown sound have long contended that it was Gordy's basic gimmick-the smoothing and packaging of rhythm and blues-that drew white listeners to his label. Essentially, he applied the same formula to his profitable production of Lady Sings the Blues, turning the hard life and times of Singer Billie Holiday into a muzzy backstage love story. It is also what happens in Mahogany. "I wanted to bring the same romantic feeling that movies used to have," says Gordy...
...enough into adulthood to know he is there, but in any case his head is full of the prime fantasies of good pulp fiction. He wants to be a writer, particularly of cowboy stories, most specifically like those of his idol, Zane Grey. Lewis has the master's formula down pretty tight ("One thing leads to another, and pretty soon he's got a story"), and can emulate his prose with zest ("A Colt in either hamlike fist...
...hope proved hollow. Before the convention delegates could reassemble, the three principal parties of the Protestant United Ulster Unionist Coalition caucused at Stormont. Among the subjects discussed was the convention's mandate: that some formula be found for power sharing acceptable both to Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Catholics. In the caucus debates, William ("King Billy") Craig, leader of the militant Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, emerged in the unlikely role of moderate. Long a hardliner, Craig now was urging that Catholic moderates be considered for Cabinet posts, though only on a temporary, emergency basis...
When producers do get around to turning out something like Throat, they promise to add Gallic subtlety to what they think is crude American formula. The radicals used to complain that French life was a dull blend of "Métro, Boulot and Dodo"-subway, work and sleep. Now, says the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchalne, the slogan is "Métro, Boulot, Dodo et Porno...