Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them escape from the wreck of the model train on the special-effects man's miniature trestle. Such audiences as there may be for this pulse-slowing movie might wish to reflect on the dismal results of commercial overreaching. For what The Cassandra Crossing offers is an unstable blend of three currently popular genres: the paranoid thriller, in which the good guys turn out to be rotten; the train-of-fools story; and, finally, a disaster film. Decent writing and skilled direction might have come up with something admirable for its nerve if nothing else. But the crowd responsible...
...McCann for example, is a jazz pianist whose moves towards pop have earned him enthusiastic applause. His "commercialized heavy soul" and his blend of blues chords have, gained him a large following. He will be playing at Paul's Mall this weekend. Not an establishment noted for scraping the musical barrel. Go hear...
...Jeff Carter's Secret Service men wear blue jeans to "blend better into campus life," then what will Amy's Secret Service men wear to her grammar school? Baseball caps and Keds...
Gardner, as he showed in A Thousand Clowns, is a writer who comes armed with a little atomizer. It is filled with a blend of heartwarming innocence and sweet-spirited childishness, with which he tries to freshen the air when all this plotting gets too thick. But since his story includes, among other misadventures, a one-night stand for each of his protagonists, an unwanted pregnancy and consequent flirtation with abortion, not to mention such urban delights as an attempted mugging, sudden death in the indifferent streets and a racist cab driver (Irwin Corey, working hard) whom Gardner tries desperately...
...both life and death. Stage Director Dexter can take credit for that too, although he has been given some splendid singing actresses to work with - Régine Crespin, Shirley Verrett, Betsy Norden, Maria Ewing. As Blanche, the rich-voiced Ewing emerges as a genuine comer in her blend of inner anguish and, at the end, heroic resolve. In the pit, French Conductor Michel Plasson shapes the music with enough loving deftness to underscore the fact that Dialogues is one of the few masterpieces of 20th century opera...