Word: blend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deja vu. Actors in whiteface mime extravagant gestures, confronting the audience with stylized, scatological invective. It is like being back in the rumble seat of '60s performance art, but with a raw poetic urgency. Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives...
...tough-on-the-outside, mushy-on-the-inside blend of up-from-the-ghetto chivalry seems to have won Mr. T the hearts of inner-city youth and Nielsen families alike. His A-Team television series is the only sure hit of the early 1983 ratings season, and when Mr. T goes to Washington, as he has done for the filming of D.C. Cab, the wholesomeness gets nearly out of control. Mr. T, 31, plays one of the drivers of a bankrupt cab company in the capital, who go about solving kidnapings and helping out old ladies. But in between...
...misses weighty historical drama by a good deal. Relegating the central political figures of the Revolution to the periphery of his film, Scola focuses on a lively troupe of contemporary notables, who talk and romp their way across the French countryside from Paris to Varennes in a characteristically French blend of the serious and the comic...
...chunky, cigar-chomping Hinton has been in El Salvador for two years. His unusual blend of realism, toughness, charm and candor earned him wide respect among the Salvadorans, and he seemed to be carrying out Washington's policy with great skill. He irked the White House recently by publicly scolding the Salvadoran government on its lax prosecution of human rights abuses, but did so at Enders' urging...
Noxell has carefully cultivated an image of wholesome, All-American beauty ever since 1914, when Dr. George Bunting cooked up the first batch of Noxzema skin cream in a coffeepot in his Baltimore pharmacy. Originally intended as a sunburn remedy, the blend of clove and eucalyptus oils, lime water, menthol and camphor also proved to be an excellent skin cleanser. In 1929, Admiral Richard Byrd took it along on his expedition to the South Pole. G.I.s during World War II and the Korean War used Noxzema for shaving. Today, when skin-care products are the fastest-growing segment...