Word: formatively
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Every idea I had was in the pile. The ones starting with "Recently I've been thinking..." and "Over the past four years...." The dissertations on the ghostly Harvard advising system. The irreverent references to General Wong's chicken and urinating on John Harvard. Even the open-letter format, which I had come up with in the shower a few days before, was taken last year...
...round-robin format, the Crimson went 9-2 and won a tiebreaking third-place race against No. 6 Dartmouth. The victory avenged a round-robin loss, for a 10-2 record on the weekend...
...siecle was also a great time for painters whose displaced religious yearnings and hunger for allegory induced them to do mock altarpieces, usually triptychs, whose format signaled the presence of a Big Statement. The most ludicrous of these is by the Belgian artist Leon Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took...
Here's a good way to punish Bill Gates without resorting to the breakup of his baby [NATION, May 8]. Put him in front of a computer and have him put a 57-page document in the proper format using Microsoft Word. That'll teach him. PHYLLIS HIRSHORN New York City...
What can fill a screen 81 ft. high? Gods and monsters. The success of Fantasia/2000 in IMAX theaters is cuing top directors like James Cameron to the notion that the format might accommodate longer stories and higher budgets. For now, documentary spectacles still splatter the big wall. The Jordan movie--a star chat interspersed with clips from his final NBA playoff drive--has an adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics. For higher highs and cooler thrills, go Cirque. The Montreal-based art circus has finally made a film that captures the joy and awe of shows...