Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extremely hard and pure form produced by burning a derivative of carbon in a blend of extremely hot gases...
Deathwatch. After 30 religiously criminal years, Jean Genet shifted to writing with a disconcerting blend of mysticism and street-eroticism about homosexuals, pilferers and murder--the making of Deathwatch...
...local branches and affiliates. The cult grows steadily and currently claims 30,000 members, 7,000 of whom live in Moon communities. All believe that a "Lord of the Second Advent" (Moon, though this is not stated publicly) will redeem mankind physically by fathering a perfect family. A blend of Christian terminology, occultism and dualism is taught in Moon's scripture, The Divine Principle...
Most advertising campaigns are designed to put a company's best foot forward in as clear and precise a manner as possible. In a quaint switch on that policy, these days the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. is offering a blend of self-abasement and mystification. Last week, A. & P. introduced the public to two men whose white aprons proclaim them to be Price and Pride. Price-hair parted down the middle, wire-rimmed glasses, collar pin-looks like a study in fiscal conservatism; Pride, bow-tied and portly, looks expansive. In print and on TV they humbly admit...
...Pacino, as the "brains" of the operation, gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome...