Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also captures youth's ardent declarations with an intimacy that would be embarrassing in a conventional novel. It is precisely here that his rhythmic style-repetitive, insistent yet detached -triumphs. Instead of direct dialogue, he employs a wincingly accurate blend of external action with internal assessment, outer posture with private probing. By endlessly circling his characters with his ringed sentences, Berto arrives at the center of meaning that they themselves cannot reach...
...beginning, the Senator from Minnesota was a mystery -a nearly unfathomable blend of intellect, humor, humility and arrogance. Always he was his own man. When he was asked whether he would make a good President, he answered: "I am willing to be President. I think I would be an adequate President. I really don't want to let you believe that I'm carrying the whole burden for the country. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really...
...left. Perhaps it is surprising to learn that the Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit the same acts of aggression in Czechoslovakia as the U.S., which also claims it is free, does in Asia. I can only hope that Czechoslovakia's progress toward realizing a blend of Communist economics with humanist politics will not perish. Long live a free Czechoslovakia...
INTRODUCING DUKE PEARSON'S BIG BAND (Blue Note). Pianist-Arranger Pearson, whose previous records featured smaller groups, has gathered 15 solid players in order to amplify his musical ideas. Straight Up and Down is a tidy blend of high-flying exuberance and smooth delivery (note the trumpet's sassy quote of Sweet Georgia Brown and the baritone sax's sly paraphrase of Once I Had a Secret Love). While Mississippi Dip is a blues to be taken lithely, A Taste of Honey switches tempos faster than the foot can follow, building to heated ensemble crescendos behind Frank...
...Vukotic's parodies of TV commercials, bureaucracy and the like may be daring back home, but they sink slowly in the West. And the film's whimsy is often as thick as wet sand. Still, Vukotic's insights into child psychology are often ingenious, and his blend of animation and bright, appealing color occasionally makes The Seventh Continent look like a feat of Klee...