Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made and natural disasters, including many wars and a host of devastating earthquakes, have made Rhodes a unique architectural showcase. Among the ruins are examples of many different styles and periods, and the influences of European, Muslim, and ancient Greek cultures blend together in a timeless harmony. The remains of a Greek temple on the Acropolis of Lindos tower over the city, facing out towards Turkey. Far below, the white houses of Lindos stand in sharp contrast to the stark hills...
...your article "Twenty-Eight, and Counting ..." [July 18], you state that "the blend of sex and male-to-male rivalry can be explosive." What about the explosive violence of the thousands of married men who beat their wives and what about the 1 million children a year who are physically abused by their parents? Homosexuals have no patent on violence...
...thought homosexuals were supposed to be limp-wristed effeminates. Now I read that we're aggressive, murder-inclined males subject to a "blend of sex and male-to-male rivalry" that can prove "explosive...
...erogenous zones. All his women-those grandly callipygian wardrobes of radiant flesh, whose bodies we feebly classify as "fat"-seem, as Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, to have "fed upon roses." The late landscapes he painted around Chateau de Steen, his country seat out side Brussels, are an extraordinary blend of the God's-eye-view landscape of mannerist art with the dense enumeration of Rubens' own material possessions...
...cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind. The changes made, he goes back into the air, accompanied by cheers from local residents who are hanging out of windows. "Hey, Supraman, why cantcha get the cat?" someone shouts in that rich blend of gravel and adenoids known as Brooklynese. "Thattaboy, Supraman!" yells another when he actually touches the dusty beast...