Word: formulaic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Love for this man, it turns out, will be the answer to Winona's troubles. For "Reality Bites" drags itself out of the Gen X abyss with a time-honored formula: the elfishly pretty girl with the endearing range of fashion options gets to choose between two guys who are in love with her, while her much more interesting sidekick, spouting tart tittle one-liners about her job at the Gap, tabulates the number of men she's slept with in a little book that she keeps by her bed. Being the "main" character, as signalled by her creative, spunky...
...less than an amazing instrument of industrial rejuvenation. Before it came along, the Japanese had more or less usurped the Swiss as the heavyweight champions of the watch business by substituting their cheap and reliable digital technology for Switzerland's legendary craftsmanship. The question now is whether that industrial formula can work for -- of all things -- automobiles...
...wait a minute: Beavis and Butthead are also sexist and dumb! Those robots aren't anywhere near as cool as R2D2 and C3P0! I've figured out a simple formula...
...only people who have successfully evaded this formula are Matt Groening and company. "The Simpsons" is always full of "send-ups" of various cultural phenomena, but what makes them work is the lack of ironic distance at all. "Itchy and Scratchy" is not as different from "Tom and Jerry" as you might think. The informercials playing in the Simpsons' living room are almost exact replies of those playing in my living room right...
...accompanying limitations, provide the main reason why so many of us dread the prospect of growing old. In this culture, aging is portrayed as a time when people become implicated in elaborate (and often not wholly effective) subterfuges which often involve the application of assorted unguents and Grecian Formula...