Word: blend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCullers intended the play to be a tragi-comedy, but her attempt to blend genres results in an unsteady pace and mood, and leaves the audience unsure how to react. The play begins as a romantic comedy, featuring sappy dialogue between the lovers Mollie (Bess Wohl) and John (J.P. Anderson). Their pasts, however, are anything but sweet; John's wife left him, and Mollie married and divorced the same abusive husband twice. Then enter Mollie's ex's mother, Mother Lovejoy (Jill Weitzner), the Southern playwright's requisite aging Southern belle, and her dowdy daughter Loreena (Tanya Krohn). But even...
Finally, He sat next to me. What could I do but introduce myself? I did, and we had a little chat, which, in memory, seems to blend in with his Letterman appearance and the hushed secrets of the graduating class...
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall. And in Pulp Fiction, a multipart tribute to the hard-boiled books and films of American mid-century, he has devised a sprawling, sturdy canvas that accommodates the high-octane and the highbrow...
Tisdel's favorite options at Starbucks, for example, are Guatemala Antigua ("rich, satisfying, and full of lively flavor complexities" says a brochure) and the Gold Coast Blend...
...Gold Coast Blend's] got a carmelly sort of sweetness to it that some of the other coffees don't have," Tisdel says...