Word: blend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mall was intended to "architecturally blend in" with the area, according to Karp, who says the mall is "an urban project unmatched" anywhere in the United States...
Brokaw says he found that balancing his career ambitions with the rigors of parenting was a tricky task. Yet he says he always tried to blend his personal and professional life...
...unique blend of a sense of humor, seriousness of purpose and concern for the world," Nagel says, adding that he has never held a student in higher esteem than Raines during his 30-year career at Franklin...
Worse, when action is never shown to have deadly or pitiable consequences, it tends toward abstraction. Pretty soon you're not tornado watching, you're special-effects watching. These are, to be sure, excellent, a seamless blend of digital wizardry and mechanical stunts supervised by the masterful John Frazier. Excellent too is Jack N. Green's cinematography, stubbornly trying to supply the moods and textures missing from the script. In the end, though, Twister proves what everyone already knows--that great visual effects alone cannot carry a picture to anything but insane profitability. And that Michael Crichton has never...
Possession is by far A.S. Byatt's best-known novel. A miraculous blend of contemporary and Victorian morality and romance, it won the 1990 Booker Prize in Britain just as it was being published in the U.S. to glowing reviews and warm sales. Babel Tower (Random House; 625 pages; $25.95) is Byatt's first novel since then, and will surely attract the attention of all those enchanted by Possession. It is also likely to provoke some head scratching, since the new novel continues a story begun in two of Byatt's earlier, pre-Possession books...