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...significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field.” That new field—the animated feature—instantly became a staple in children’s entertainment, and over the next 50 years Disney used the Snow White formula to crank out 26 more movies. If Snow White was the Classical period of animation, then everything from 1940’s Pinocchio to 1988’s Oliver and Company were its long Middle Ages. Lots of good things were made, but nothing...
Sally Donahue asserts that the College’s formula for aid is standardized and fair. “We assess a student’s need in accordance with both federal guidelines and institutional financial aid policy. There are a number of forms students and their families file in application for assistance, in addition to supplying us with copies of their most recent federal tax forms. The need analysis formula that we use considers a number of factors, such as the size of a student’s family, the number of members in college, family income and assets...
...Ollie Galam, owner of Executive Clothiers, a men's store in Prospect Heights, Ill., today's hard times have triggered a reappraisal of his salespeople's pay formula. He is considering lowering typical base salaries from $40,000 to $35,000 and offering higher commissions. "We have to shift more of the risk to employees," Galam says. "The owner can't take all of it anymore...
...opened her shirt to show the world what a 60-day trial bottle of Bloussant did for her. I can see it now: I begin my daily get-ready regimen with a few Bloussant wonder pills only to have the “guaranteed” growth formula create a rash that the lovely nurses at UHS would diagnose as pregnancy for sure or, even worse, add a third useless boobie to the two I’ve already...
...answer, like all good answers, is a convoluted admixture of yes and no. Art is both a craft-a techne-and, well, an art. The former part of this formula, the technical part, can be taught, while the latter cannot. Unfortunately for all those involved, the artists contributing KidsArt fail to take this distinction into account. They offer technically simple (at times absurdly minimalist) examples of highly philosophically charged artwork. The messages are complex and multifarious, and the technique almost nonexistent...