Word: blend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reviews, big business, Oscars all around. But The Cotton Club-the movie, not the gossip machine-deserves less. The volatile drama that attended its making rarely flares onscreen; working at flash point made no sparks fly. On even the calmest of sets, the premise would have shown promise: to blend the early talkies' two most popular genres, the gangster film and the musical, into a sort of Public Enemy Goes to 42nd Street or, modernized, The Godfather Gets One from the Heart. Why, then, is The Cotton Club such a frigid, juiceless mess...
...tucked behind a door marked only by the number 403. A security guard shoos away the curious. Inside, the office is decorated with a Persian carpet, wing chairs and violet orchids. Says Richard Saalfeld, head of private banking: "We try for an interior look that's a blend between a private residence and a law office...
...Riches are already whispered. "But for some reason, deep down inside, I just have a feeling I'll wind up in the N.F.L. I'm not the greatest athlete in the world, as far as height, speed, strength or anything else. But I'm a good blend ol a number of things," not the least of them...
With his patrician good looks and air of thoughtful intensity, his blend of Western rationalism and passionate nationalism, Nehru was an ideal-and idealistic-leader of the new India. He was cosmopolitan, commanding, charismatic. His interest in civil rights had been quickened by his friend and mentor Gandhi, his intellectual theories refined at Harrow and Cambridge. As Prime Minister, he ambitiously embarked upon a path of democratic socialism, hoping to bring industry, literacy and, above all, modernity to an India that was in many areas poverty stricken and backward. Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy...
When they first emigrated, many Sikhs tried to blend into their new homes by shedding their turbans and shaving their beards. But as they have grown more rooted and confident, they have proved characteristically resolute in defense of their customs. In 1969 Sikh bus crews in Britain defied, and defeated, a local transport committee that prohibited the wearing of turbans by employees. Then, mounting their own mobile version of civil disobedience, Sikh motorcyclists flouted British law by wearing their turbans in place of the required helmets. Just last year, after a private school refused admission to a 13-year...