Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them and yet are curiously dull. The playing, by various members of the string sections, was more spirited than usual for these works. Simpson's cello playing was especially sensitive and powerful, coaxing a wonderful resonance from the instrument. When the fantasias are done by viols, the blend of sound can be excruciatingly monotonous. At the same time, there are advantages to original instruments: a viola da gamba's tuning is different from a cello's and the notes it plays on open strings can change the shading of tonality greatly...
...waifs. The film, however, never strays far from its hero: this is the Tramp's story, and Charlie Chaplin is the Tramp. More than anything in the plot's evolution or even the set-up of individual scenes, the humor and-or sadness evoked depends on Chaplin's unique blend of esprit and helplessness in this, his best-known character. He always chooses just the right foolish grin, the exact degree of surprise, the perfect whimper of apology...
Yugoslavia is sometimes described as 100% Marxist-50% Karl and 50% Groucho. Although it is Communist, it maintains a market economy that is based on competition between state-owned but individually run companies. That zany-sounding blend of socialism and free enterprise has given the 20.5 million Yugoslavs the fastest growing economy in Eastern Europe. In major cities, modern, wide-windowed apartment complexes dot the skyline, autos clog the streets and stores are stocked with television sets, radios and kitchen appliances. Lately, however, the system has developed enough problems to bring the nation to a crossroad at which its leaders...
Novak's notions of revolution blend a variety of the new populism (TIME, April 17), with a dream of "cultural pluralism." Novak talks bravely of "a policy that will guide the nation for thirty years-that is what we need." But his own suggestions tend to be vague: "Life will slow down," "new cities" will be built "on a human scale." Or nostalgic: There should be a William Morris-like return to handicrafts and cottage industries. Or whimsical: Let one million New Yorkers move to Iowa, where "there are green fields and hills, jobs and dignity...
...folk art is only natural. "Brazilians are very proud of their mental quickness," he says. "They like to live by their wits; capoeira is not a sport of brute force but rather of outwitting the other fellow." Agrees Bimba: "Capoeira is something truly Brazilian-it's our own blend...