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...music industry is a curious beast. With Kurt Cobain's suicide and the subsequent self-destruction of the entire grunge genre, record companies suddenly found themselves scrambling for a new buzz word, a new formula that they could package and sell to teenagers across the country. Somehow they decided that electronica was the answer--a genre that had never been prevalent in America, yet had already had a long development in Europe. However, they immediately discovered that it was not as easy to market electronic music as they might have liked. A trip to the nearby record store will reveal...
...addition to these two efforts, Harvard supports revisions of the need formula to aid students who save and earn their own money for education-though this is not one of the University's priorities, Nixon said...
...take the measure of a woman's life at 50, when her generation--or at least its passionate front line--has broken all the rules? "There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today," Hillary Rodham Clinton once said. "Perhaps it would be easier...if we could be handed a pattern and cut it out, just as our mothers and grandmothers and foremothers were. But that is not the way it is today, and I'm glad...
...distorted guitar, dissonant Moog organ, unfettered drumming and delightfully adolescent lyrics praising the virtues of drugs and sex ("she always said she was just the same/she liked tequila and cocaine"). A spirited intensity infused with funkiness and pop sensibility propels their latest effort, Emerge, beyond the banality this formula might suggest--but not very far beyond. About half the songs take off while the rest crash and burn...
...Catholicism--and threatening them with death if they declined the offer. Facing these appealing options, many Jews publicly converted while continuing to live secretly as Jews. Faced with the fact that so many of them had made false vows before God, Jews took advantage of the Kol Nidre formula, knowing that if they appeared in court to recite Kol Nidre the year before, God could not take their vows of faith in Christianity seriously...