Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more music and less rhetoric. South Africa to South Carolina, released in 1976, is highly political in content and feverish in rhythm. Secrets manages to strike a balance between these two modes of music. All of their albums include a track about a revolution; in "Third World Revolution," the blend of drums, tenor saxophone and fast-paced lyrics account for the only track reminiscent of the South Africa to South Carolina album. "Better Days Ahead," a mellow reflection of Bridges, also serves to achieve the balance in Secrets...
...hitherto obscure hamlet of Jonestown in the jungles of Guyana, on the northern coast of South America. The scene below him was one of almost unimaginable carnage. In an appalling demonstration of the way in which a charismatic leader can bend the minds of his followers with a devilish blend of professed altruism and psychological tyranny, some 900 members of the California-based Peoples Temple died in a self-imposed ritual of mass suicide and murder...
Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...
...Moore has frittered away the time by trying to parlay an indifferent singing voice and nice legs into a career as a song-and-dance woman. Last winter she came up with a special called How to Survive the 70s and Maybe Even Bump into Happiness, a thoroughly distasteful blend of toothless social satire and Vegas vulgarity. This fall Moore unveiled Mary, a regular variety show in CBS's old Sunday-night Ed Sullivan slot. On Mary the star had the aid of some top writers and supporting players, including Dick Shawn and Swoozie Kurtz. But the show flopped...
...most states parental rights to discipline their children are limited only by a patchwork of legal injunctions against serious physical injury and flagrant neglect. Members of the protective service must hide their own anger and proceed with a blend of cajolery, compassion and very limited powers of compulsion as they try to protect abused children. The welfare department's official charge, though, is with nothing less than "preserving healthy family life" in the state. Often, helping children means trying to bring parents to such a condition of emotional stability that they will no longer want to beat their kids...