To be fair, many of today's safe chart bands of the moment simply took their formula of crystalline alt-indie and ran with it.
The architects tweaked their formula of brick contrasted with a wealth of terra cotta ornament -- in this case supplying a surfeit of terra cotta.
Still, the Jets will stick with their formula of pitting size against size so that the 6-2 Coleman will cover Pittsburgh receiver Plaxico Burress, who is 6-5.
Their formula of sprawling live improvisation instead of studio-culled hooks is as reliable as anything in the noodling world of jazz-tinged jam bands.
Their formula of action, wholesome humor and anthropomorphic martial arts warriors -- then the rage in minor-league comics -- caught on, as the comics soon sold in the tens of thousands and the series spun into films and television.
It is possible that they might pretend to distance themselves from Al Qaeda, but we should recognize that the partnership with Al Qaeda has been part of their formula of success.
By the time the founders of Top 40 radio Todd Storz and Bill Stewart in Omaha, Neb., and Gordon McLendon in Dallas, Texas came up with their formula of excitable deejays, contests, jingles, abbreviated news, and a playlist of 40 hit records, the deejay ranks had swelled and changed.
At the Grove, at Third and Fairfax, Caruso and his in-house team perfected their formula of marrying retail with entertainment, dining, a gently curving promenade for strolling and a world of other trademark touches like valet parking, piped-in music from the Rat Pack era and a concierge desk where shoppers can make dinner reservations or borrow an umbrella in the rare event of rain.
Intended to encourage automobile industries through sport, by 1903 the Gordon Bennett races had become some of the most prestigious in Europe; their formula of closed-road racing among similar cars replaced the previous model of unregulated vehicles racing between distant towns, over open roads.
But quite a few, as part of their formulas to reconcile with the storm, have chosen to live with that waterline, not always knowing why.
