Word: formulaically
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...understand Hailey, who is arguably the most popular writer of fiction in America today, it is best to shed any ideas of him as an artist who is making a creative progression from work to work. Rather, he is a writer who has hit upon a formula that has several great advantages and can be infinitely repeated. (I'm pulling for him to write his next opus about the government bureaucracy, to be entitled State, but I can also see universities, law firms, daily newspapers, the motion picture industry and shipping companies as fertile territory...
...billion. In 1964 the U.S. spent $110.4 billion on defense (in 1976 dollars), while the Soviets spent $100 billion. Last week the CIA conceded that it may have been underestimating, by almost one-half, the percentage of the Soviet G.N.P. spent on defense. The agency is now overhauling its formula for appraising Soviet expenditures and is leaning toward a conclusion some Pentagon analysts have held for years: the Soviets have been spending as much as 15% of their G.N.P. on defense, compared with about...
...Hyatt Co. bought the hotel in 1967 for $18 million and is happy it did; the occupancy rate has been an astounding 90%. Not surprisingly, Hyatt asked Portman to repeat his formula in a hotel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and it worked again. Sophisticated Chicagoans make the 45-min. trip from downtown to have a cocktail and stare. In 1971, however, Portman broke with Hyatt after a quarrel and joined forces with the Western International chain, a subsidiary of U.A.L. Inc. It now runs the new Portman hotel in Atlanta...
...shown itself to be upper-income and highly educated, concerned with ecology (many "Friends of the Earth" are in Cambridge and Newton) and the scarcity of natural resources, but not overly interested in policies appealing to the masses, like jobs and prices. In short, it is the "elite liberal" formula that in another guise--acid, amnesty, abortion--led McGovern down the road to disaster...
...intensely specific artist. Specificity did not come easily, for any landscapist practicing around 1800 faced a battery of required stereotypes-chiefly the pastoral landscape with framing trees and unified brown tone, in the manner of Claude or Gaspard Poussin. Time and again, we see Constable glancing at the formula, using it, sheering off. He writes in 1803, the year of his Royal Academy debut: "I have been running after pictures and seeking the truth at second hand . . I shall shortly return to Bergholt where I shall make some laborious studies from nature - and I shall endeavour to get a pure...