Word: rigidity
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Lampoon: does not have tight deadline or rigid space requirements and can publish silly things like lists...
Crimson: has tight deadline and rigid space requirements and has to publish huge advertisements for "SHIV in Concert...
...noble as the experiment might have seemed on paper, in practice UHS wallows ineffectively in the quagmire of its own bureaucracy. Most people at UHS are empowered to act only within the confines of extremely rigid rules and regulations. These rules are not designed to bend in the harsh wind of reality...
When Mikhail Baryshnikov fled a touring Soviet dance troupe in Toronto in 1974, he left a homeland he loved and a professional life he could no longer bear. A performer of electrifying excitement, "Misha" saw nothing but stagnation in the rigid Soviet system. In the U.S., however, his dreams have come true: he danced the gamut of Western choreography, now heads a major company, the American Ballet Theatre, and is making his third film, Giselle. His second movie, White Nights, tells the tale of an emigre star whose plane crashes in the Soviet Union, forcing him to outwit...
...ideological allies for 40 years, are said to have bitterly quarreled in recent weeks. Deng reportedly berated Hu for failing to take effective and decisive action to stop the student protests. Hu also crossed Deng by standing up for writers who have been critical of the party and its rigid policies...