Word: formulaic
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...would be years before Slichter left his post-grad day jobs to join John Munson and freshman-week friend Wilson in the band that would become Semisonic. Still, by senior year at Harvard he had hit on two-thirds of the Semisonic formula, playing gigs with Wilson and another in The Floating World, which Slichter recalls now as an Anglophile act “with a sort of r-and-b approach on the drums...
METHODS: A unique formula...
...Republicans out in America, mainline Republicans. This was not about evidence. This was about a struggle for power. I think that they really saw us as usurpers. They thought the only reason they lost the election to Jimmy Carter was Watergate. They thought they had found a formula to describe us in a way that would basically move us out of consideration with the American people, rooted in the receding memory of the '60s. You know, weak on crime, fiscally irresponsible, never met a tax we didn't like, never met a program we didn't like, couldn't defend...
...singles here--"You can't hear it on the radio," Tweedy acknowledges on the final track, The Late Greats--but the album may still be the year's most addictive rock release. "One of the underlying principles of the band is the idea that there is no formula," Tweedy says, "that it's O.K. to throw everything out the window, including the things you're pretty sure about...
Chase rejects the notion that success is derived from a formula...