Word: blend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vividly portrayed evildoers on TV since Eliot Ness squared off against Frank Nitti on The Untouchables. Even more striking, however, is the show's depiction of the temptation that evil presents to basically good men. It is no accident that Crockett and Tubbs frequently go undercover, and seem to blend in perfectly when they do. Moreover, the show's most powerful episodes deal with law-enforcement officials who have gone over to "the other side...
...Forget everything you were just beginning to like about vegetable pates and the grilled rare duck breast, magret de canard. The days of the nouvelle cuisine and its culinary trademarks are numbered. What the savviest chefs in France are cooking up now is being hailed as cuisine moderne, a blend of the classic and the nouvelle. Some observers prefer to call this new cooking actuelle (what is really being cooked today), while others describe it as libre (free), personnalisee (personalized) or, perhaps most appropriately, courante (trendy...
...affluent. But access to such a demographic bull's-eye is expensive. A page sells for $27,000, about the same amount that Vogue charges for a similar space. Bloomingdale's is more demanding than the fashion magazines, requiring that the color, copy and image of the ads visually blend with the store's offerings...
...food emporium, include oatmeal cookies and garlic-flavored biscuits. While most veterinarians see little advantage to such fare, adherents claim that the high ratio of vegetable ingredients produces healthier pets. The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog advocates feeding Rover what he would eat in the wild. Animal Herb Blend, a mixture of some 20 herbs, including fennel and raspberry leaves, simu- lates the ingredients found inside, say, a wild rabbit's stomach. The dogs seem to love...
...cross-pollination creates a lively cultural blend. In Juarez, a popular hangout is the Kentucky Club, where mostly Mexican patrons select from such jukebox favorites as Duke Ellington and Julio Iglesias. Across the river in El Paso, Mexican teenagers from Juarez buy heavy metal rock LPs from Star Records, a music shop, since such disks are scarce in their city...