Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have used many art forms for " TIME covers-painting, drawing, cartoon, collage, woodcut, sculpture -but never before the special blend that makes up this week's cover on Playboy Editor Hugh Hefner. It is the work of Marisol, whose highly original and wryly appealing style joins wood sculpture, drawing and painting (not to mention carpentry) in a unique combination. The components of her portraits may be odd -a box, a block, a barrel-but they perceptively convey likeness as well as character. "Her art is that of a toy-maker," wrote TIME'S art critic in 1963, "designed...
...LOVE (Vanguard). A surprisingly tasteful blend of erotica and exotica as Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor who has been seen on Broadway (A Passage to India), reads his own translation of the Kama Sutra-the classic Hindu celebration of sex-against a background of shimmering Indian music...
Certainly it is more informative to quote him: passages plucked nearly at random demonstrate his quite unique blend of energetic wit and despair, the despair of a young man whose visions of darkness are constantly lit up by lightning-like storms of adrenalin...
...other hand, an oxygen-nitrogen system has serious drawbacks for space flights. The additional storage tanks, valves, tubing and instruments necessary to blend and monitor a two-gas atmosphere would add an estimated 500 lbs. to a spacecraft the size of the Apollo...
...needled, they enticed. Both marvelous singer-actors, they bent and shaded their voices in a seemingly infinite variety of veiled sneers, smiling threats and choked curses. In duets, Ludwig's vibrant, richly textured mezzo-soprano enfolded Berry's robust, securely focused baritone like velvet over steel. A blend of poetry and power, their singing was eloquent proof that strife can be beautiful...