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Although cast in the genre's typically repetitive structure, "Format VI," one of Brenda Way's two works, ironically undercuts the idea of mathematical/conceptual/schematized dance. Six dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing themselves backwards to standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations...
Soap bibles are increasingly complicated. In the '50s Agnes Nixon wrote five shows a week. "No one could do that today. Characters do not sit around their coffee cups like they used to," she says. The hour-long format "places a 500% extra pressure on writers," says Falken-Smith. Friday is the most important episode of the week; a cliffhanger is necessary to induce viewers to come back after the weekend. On the slower soaps, it is the only day anything ever happens. Falken-Smith often writes Days of Our Lives Friday installments herself; they have recently included a miscarriage...
Harvard's indoor track team travels to Boston College today with a seven-point advantage. No, coach Bill McCurdy's crew hasn't been spotted the lead by a generous Eagle contingent, but rather earned its edge through a "subway series" format employed in the dual meet...
Boston College has some outstanding track talent, but as in the past, its depth still looms as a large question mark. The unusual two-day format of the meet, coupled with NCAA team traveling limits, led both squads to agree on 22-men squad restrictions. Therefore, give the edge in the depth department to the Crimson...
...Last August HEW required the University of Washington to present statistical information about its 15,000 staff and faculty members in a new computerized format. The cost of this change: $50,000. The cost of complying with federal requirements in the past two years, says University Vice President Philip Cartwright, runs "into hundreds of thousands of dollars...