Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abortive Attempt. The film is a blend of animation and live action. Like Director Bakshi's previous inexplicable successes, Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic, the movie labors under the delusion that outrageousness is a synonym for wit, ugliness of line and color a form of style, crudeness a necessary ingredient of vitality...
...beliefs expressed in its manifestoes. Its ideal was to promote egalitarian social conditions by providing visual continuity at every level of life. For example, a perfect start to a Bauhaus day would be to wake up in the morning to coffee in a mass-produced coffee cup designed to blend pleasantly with that day's newspaper type, whose forms in turn would intermesh smoothly with the rest of the Kitchen, the house--in short, the world, Waking to that well-designed harmony, you were expected to feel one, good, and two, part of a universal humanity. Considering the social overtones...
PIQUE DAME. This is another mar velous blend of the Tchaikovsky-Push kin talents telling the unhappy tale of an obsessive gambler named Hermann who makes a pact with the dead to win a for tune. The singing on the first night (again Atlantov, Mazurok and Milash-kina) was excellent, but here, as on sev eral other occasions, the real stars were Conductor Yuri Simonov, 34, and his powerhouse orchestra, who seize upon each moment of melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices...
...Pegging the van at a straight 65 mph cramps the calf muscles of my legs on the accelerator, so every hour I shift legs and sit cross-ways to the road. When tired I flay my head out against the air til blond rams my ears and road light blend into National Geographic nightscapes. Cultivating this weariness. I drive...
Despite their confident use of statistics, graphs and maps to limn the future, city planners have no claim on prescience. They depend instead on an all too fallible blend of private intuition and public persuasion; theirs is not a profession for the timid. Most persuasive of them all, at least through the 1960s, was Greece's Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, who was buried last week after dying at the age of 62 of multiple sclerosis. Based in Athens, he specialized in drawing up practical housing programs for developing countries and thus directly influenced the lives of tens of millions...