Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HEART AND STOMPED ON IT W35 another terrifying teaser in the weekly tabloid's gory old days. The paper's new day is something else. In a total turnabout, the Enquirer has banished cannibalism, sadism and sick sex in favor of a blend of upbeat success stories, gossip by and about celebrities, plus an overdose of the occult and the quasiscientific. The switch to a kind of respectability has had spectacular results. Circulation, stalled at about 1,000,000 at the height of the Enquirer's grisly period a few years ago, has risen...
Otherwise, Harvard could fall prey to the psyched Yalies, a sad comment on the Crimson's inability to blend its talent into a winning team...
...exception is Gloria Fisher as Inez. Ms. Fisher reads her lines with a wonderful blend of absolute cruelty and sickly grace--Inez in her hands is truly frightening. The other two main actors do not even come close to Ms. Fisher. Joan E. Thompson as Estelle has the right idea at times, but for the most part she is just too nice. Estelle the baby-killer and Estelle the nice girl don't mix. David Sweeney as Garcin is the weakest of all; Garcin is a terribly tormented person, capable of the utmost barbarity toward his wife...
...TILLERMAN (A & M). Love songs and ecology blend happily in the song bag of British Bard Cat Stevens...
...periodic skirmishes with his testy patron, Pope Julius 11. When he finished in 1512, he was justly famous as "the divine Michelangelo." Ever since, writers have gossiped about, art historians studied, painters stolen from, and crowds journeyed to Rome to stare in wonder at the most massive and majestic blend of worldly splendor and Christian message that the Renaissance produced. Even though these two volumes cost almost exactly as much as youth fare flight to Rome, plus five days in a modest pensione, they provide more information-as well as more lasting, detailed and dramatic visions of the Sistine Chapel...