Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharp Angles. The basic formula for success remains unchanged from Alicia's day: a skillful mix of local, national and foreign coverage, almost always clearly and concisely written. Newsday's reporting of state politics, for example, is consistently more searching than that of the New York City dailies. "A story for this paper has to be angled sharply," explains Executive Editor Alan Hathway. "The morning papers have had a shot at it, television has had a shot at it. We have to assume one of two things: no one has seen the story or read anything; or they...
Behind Red Doors. The year Arden originated the magic formula was 1910, four years before her latter-day archrival, Helena Rubinstein, arrived in the States. It was an era when women washed their own hair, when a lady used glycerine, rose water and talcum powder in moderation, when the vilest words that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German...
...Gina Lollobrigida, looking as delicately outraged as a piece of fine cracked china, plays the neglected bourgeois wife of bumptious Robert Morley. In revenge, she undertakes a night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady, a nephew, an upstairs maid, a seething proprietor, a bellboy, gendarmes, four skittish schoolgirls, an underdressed chanteuse and a doddering duke...
...Liquidator. Overproduction is the No. 1 problem of the James Bondustry. In 1966, moviegoers have been offered no less than 22 examples of secret-agentertainment. The Liquidator, like Our Man Flint, attempts to make money on the formula by making fun of it. This time, unfortunately, the fun is less noticeable than the formula...
...Austin-Healey Sprite, will sell for slightly less than $2,000 in the U.S. The pint-sized Honda 500 will cost about $1,100, will compare with British Motors' Mini Minor and the Fiat 600. Both the 5800 and the 500 derive from a four-cylinder Honda Formula II racer that won all ten of its Grand Prix starts this year...