Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Animal, a live recording of one of Reed's concert dates at New York's Academy of Music. This divergence from the Velvet's sound presented Reed in a new light, perhaps disappointing to a few Velvet diehards but generally well-received by critics and fans alike. Thus the formula was simple for all future tours: back up Reed's vocal performance with a tight set of musicians that could attract equal amounts of audience attention when called upon to do so. The remainder of the time their sole obligation would be to keep the audience rocking while providing...
Sand comes equipped with a financially harassed brother-in-law (Michael Pataki) who lives in the failed subdivision he designed ("the only FHA-approved ghost town"). Pataki's wife (Penny Marshall) provides another standard element in the Moore formula, a voice for the reality principle, keeping everyone's fantasies within bounds. Trying to borrow money to keep a perpetual-student sister in school, Pataki inquires whether Marshall would like to see the girl "out in the streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater...
...Rourke, 36, an antiwar activist who is now affiliated with Catholics for a Free Choice, a group that disputes the church's teachings on abortion. On the steps of Immaculate Conception Church, whose doors were firmly locked, O'Rourke baptized Nathaniel Ryan Morreale with the ancient formula, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Bill Baird, a former Sunday school teacher who now professes "no formal religion," was invited to make a sign of the cross on the child's forehead...
Yoshida, now 65, insists that he still follows that formula, and it has made his company, YKK Manufacturing, the world's largest zipper maker. This year it will produce 500,200 miles of zippers, more than enough to stretch to the moon and back. Sales have grown from a pathetic $170 in 1934, YKK's first year, to $475 million...
...only now been determined is that in the last year and a half of his life he was discontented. As Hendrix seemed to see it, he was a prisoner of his image, his managers and the very blast of sound that had catapulted him to fame. The commercial formula was so successful that his managers forbade any change in it. And so every night that he was not performing, Hendrix would retreat to a recording studio in Manhattan (which he partly owned and called Electric Lady) to play his own kind of music...