That has always been a reliable formula for television ratings.
A hard beat and a soft voice: it's a reliable formula, and on her debut album, "Music of the Sun," Rihanna spends 25 minutes sticking to it.
Soap operas, of course, were created for the purpose of selling soap, so it is a reliable formula to use them to peddle products.
But the two works on the current program by his company, Lines Ballet, at the Joyce Theater reveal that for Mr. King this is a reliable formula rather than an attempt to push boundaries.
From P. D. Eastman's "Are You My Mother?" to J. R. R. Tolkien's hobbits, it's a reliable formula, famously summarized in T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets": "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time".
By the time the "Natural Born Killers" suit was ended, in 2002, "The Matrix," again a Warner film, had already created a new kind of screen violence, by welding an elaborate fiction about hidden manipulators of the world as we know it to what had been a reliable formula in Burbank since the arrival of Steven Seagal — that is, the combination of big guns with frenetic martial arts.
The −2 Log likelihood is 72.26, showing that the model is appropriate to develop and the percentage of correct prediction will be 89.1%, which means it is a reliable formula (Table 13).
A reliable formula is 1 cup kosher salt (and an optional 1/2 to 1 cup of brown sugar) to 1 gallon of water.
While the makers of "The Stepford Wives" are working to rescue their film in strict secrecy, here is a guide to the techniques they have at their disposal: TWEAK EVERY JOKE -- Comedy is the only movie genre with a reliable formula for success: roughly, more laughs, more box office.
