Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glance at the final statistics will go a long way in explaining the Crimson's easy win for Harvard employed its victory formula. This strategy basically amounts to having Lou Silver and Brian Banks lead the Crimson offensive attach...
...Schuller's formula for church success consists of five points: "Accessibility, service, visibility, possibility thinking and excess parking." Some churchmen find that too shallow. "This church doesn't take religion seriously enough," complains Bob Merkle, the director of a counseling service who works with the church. "To fit in around here you have to be compulsively cheerful." The erudite Theology Today has been debating whether Schuller's message is a cultural copout...
...five months after David was born, Jo took care of him. Then, Teddy charges, she began to put ground glass and soap in the child's formula, stepped on his fingers and fed him overdoses of medicine. "They asked me about all of those things, and I finally admitted to having done them," says Jo. "Somebody had to be the crazy one in a group like that. The role was chosen for me, and I accepted it. The family attracts emotionally sick people...
Leontief, who developed the input-output formula that helps economists determine how changes in one sector of the economy affect other sectors, has other complaints about the department. He is bitter that it did not broaden its scope by granting tenure to four radical economists in the past few years (three subsequently left) or by hiring the woman who assisted him in developing applications for his formula, Brandeis Professor Anne Carter...
...plans, but who are finally vanquished by good fortune--a reunion acene brings the lovers back together again for the happy ending. Or during the opera parody, the music might structure itself around a Puccini-type love duet and a Mozartian recitative, accompanying the Romeo and Juliet-type plot formula that stands behind an avalanche of imitative narrative detail...