The 46-year-old Newey has built a reputation as one of the most imaginative and innovative formula one engineers of the past two decades.
Even so, "Oltremare" remains the best Bigonzetti ballet I've seen because Bruno Moretti's commissioned score keeps turning stage formula into imaginative theater poetry (and because the subject matter is immensely appealing).
But the story's most interesting and complicated paradox lies in the inversion of the inner-outer formula by which imaginative literature is perforce propelled.
Elsewhere" promised to be more imaginative than television's average doctor formula, the kind that Dr. Kildare and Dr. Marcus Welby, among many others, milked so successfully.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
Over the past five or six years, ABC has tried and tried again to replicate parts of the "Lost" formula, but with more timid concepts and less imaginative executions.
Although Mr. Henderson might be the most qualified person on the premises to consider imaginative uses for technology, his sculptures are based on a crudely conceived formula: supersize an old design object and recreate it in luxurious materials, particularly stone.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, also at the premiere, noted that "motion-picture history was made last night ... Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion ... Fantasia ... is simply terrific".
That, in any case, is the formula devised by the Civilians, an investigative theater troupe celebrated for its imaginative reach of empathy.
In contrast to the imaginative layouts of Little Nemo, Sammy Sneeze was confined to a rigid grid and followed a strict formula: Sammy's sneeze would build frame by frame, contorting the protagonist's face until it erupted in the second-to-last panel.
