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...Ortiz's blend of confidence, competence and contrition reassured some listeners. "Well, that's what we've been waiting for!" exclaimed an analyst ) after the Finance Minister's two-hour, standing- room-only speech at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, one of more than a dozen meetings he held before traveling to Washington to put his case before the World Bank...
...Valentine, Irene Jacob is stunning. She transforms the screen as her huge poster transforms the streets of Geneva. It is a tribute to Kieslowski that this rather inexperienced actor is so at ease in front of the camera. Able to blend an innocent facade with an inner strength, Jacob is a pleasure to watch...
...sons ages 10 and 18, teaches at a high school in Oslo. He wrote Sophie's World to fill a gap. Stores were full of New Age pap and other mystical mush, but there were no books that would introduce young people to serious philosophy. By trying to blend fantasy with head-cracking summaries of deep thought, Gaarder feared that he had "sat down between two stools. But I was mistaken. Sophie's World fell on top of all the stools...
...victim's visual agnosia: unable to synthesize visual images, the man relied on Schumann's music to help him apprehend the world. In The Piano, Scottish folk tunes suffused the keyboard reveries that gave the mute heroine Ada her soaringly distinctive if wildly anachronistic voice: the result was a blend of rigorous Minimalism, frank Romanticism and the listener-friendly ecstasies of New Age music...
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...