Word: blended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Stan Kenton, a modernist bandleader whose arrangements blend boppish bounce with blood-curdling dissonances, prepared for his Paris debut with understandable misgivings. But when concert time came, the theater was very nearly filled. When the curtain rose, friendly applause swept up from the audience, and Dixieland partisans, if any, behaved themselves. Kenton & Co. gave them a program of tightly orchestrated originals, emphasizing in turn their lush reeds and knife-edged brasses. After listening to such Kenton favorites as Collaboration, Opus in Pastels, 23 North, 82 West (the coordinates of Havana), the crowd whooped "Bis! Bis!" Said Kenton...
...Provence (where garlic is even more popular than elsewhere in France). As a group, the paintings did give off a strong flavor: baroque, darkly passionate and hot as the Midi sun. The most famous of the lot were by Fragonard, Daumier and Cezanne. (In maturity they learned to blend garlic with more subtle spices, and rose above their baroque beginnings to highly individual achievements.) But the star of the Louvre's show was a lesser man, Adolphe Monticelli, who remained typically Provencal throughout his career, was almost forgotten for a time, and is now enjoying his own little renaissance...
...surprisingly, Paul Mathry finds the Cronin blend of American ruthlessness and British hypocrisy a tough obstacle in the way of justice. No matter where he scoots, digging up new evidence to free his father, the cops and the judiciary are forever on his tail, eager to bury the nasty stuff again. But Ulster's Paul fights on with true U.S. idealism, until at last he proves that the murder was committed by a well-known Wortley philanthropist and that Sir Matthew Sprott got the conviction of father Mathry simply to feather his own nest...
Loosely based on James Michener's 1951 collection of stories, it has just the right setting - a South Sea island that out-Bali-Ha'is Bali Ha'i - plus the right blend of serious conflict and sarongs...
...Italian Novelist Aldo Palazzeschi knew, and in The Sisters Materassi, first published in Italy 19 years ago, he handles the bewildered spinsters with a blend of irony and humor that is calculated to keep his readers smiling. It is a welcome summer change from the recent crop of grim, postwar Italian novels...