Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning of all this is often unclear, even apparently to the boys in the band. "If the songs could be explained, they wouldn't be songs," shrugs Robin. "They mean something different to everybody." Although their work suggests a blend of late Beatle and early Blake, Mike will only say about influences: "I get something out of everything, even Doris Day. New spheres of reference, ways of widening the mind -everybody finds his own path to them...
...relying on the nonsensical literary sell, a waiter recites what the chef will offer that day. All very well; if the diner is not familiar with a dish, he has merely to inquire. However, in a few fancy restaurants, the answer is chillingly familiar. "This, monsieur, is a delicate blend of exotic ingredients...
...Birthday" comes through as the outstanding song on the album, fitting into the great "It Won't Be Long"-"Anytime At All"-"Daytripper" tradition with a strong and majestic Harrison guitar line, complemented by shouting hard-rock singing. It is a fertile blend of rhythms featuring a vivid piano (Nicky Hopkins?) answering Harrison's tasteful and beautiful guitar breaks...
...stunning book with vast foldout copies of hand-decorated maps by 15th and 16th century master mapmakers. The text, a blend of history and cartographical lore, discusses the methods by which cartographers recorded the shape of the continents in the wake of discoveries by the great explorer-adventurers...
...plot is a strangely appealing blend of whimsy and nightshade. Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is a paranoid, intrigue-minded young wanderer who has convinced himself that a local factory is polluting the river and poisoning the entire population. With the help of a naive drum majorette (Tuesday Weld), he grandiosely plots to foil the sinister scheme. Their plans, of course, go haywire; so do they. The girl carelessly murders a nightwatchman at the factory, and discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially...