Word: formula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel would be outnumbered by its adversaries. Shamir repeated his past offer to negotiate directly with Jordan's King Hussein under U.S.-Soviet auspices. By dwelling on the format for negotiations, Shamir deftly diverted the discussion from his far more fundamental objection to the plan: the "land- for-peace" formula that has been at the heart of U.S. peace initiatives since Israel occupied the Arab territories...
...same thing. You have a story that you have to fulfill, and that's it. It just so happens to be a different medium. The thing about stage and movies is that is seems you get deeper things to play. It's not all formula stuff like TV gets to become...
Liotta: No, well, the formula is the soap itself, and it's all people, you know, fooling around on each other and all these different kind of things. So there's a certain kind of story, but there are changes from week to week. One week you drink coffee and the next you have tea. I mean, it's somewhat of a change. No, I really dug the soap. It was a great training ground. Because once I committed to doing this, I just absorbed everything I could. I would say it helped...
Saturday, Harvard's five senior icemen--Armstrong, John Devin, Andy Janfaza, Jerry Pawloski and Don Sweeney--saw four years of fame dissolve into a puddle of Grecian Formula...
...author's formula has become too predictable, however, and Hot Money is especially welcome because it offers a variation. No steamer trunks this trip, though as usual there are a few "ers" in the mixture, for flavor. Only the locked room of the mind (and the odd explosion) vex the hero, an amateur steeplechase rider named Ian Pembroke, as he puzzles out who is trying to murder his rich and autocratic father...