Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Novelist Gore Vidal has obviously read his Robert Graves. His ninth novel (and his first in a decade) is an attempt to apply to Julian's life the same smooth blend of erudition and dramatic flair, of scholarship leavened with wit that set the urbane tone for I, Claudius and Claudius, the God. Vidal is a resourceful writer, and he has mastered the manner to perfection. Only his subject eludes...
Only by Fork. The 140-year-old family-owned Agnesi company is a heterogeneous blend of old and new. The new plant, so automated that only three men handle all milling operations, sits among old buildings in Imperia, 80 miles southwest of Genoa. Surrounded by hills and served by a wheezing one-track railroad and the winding two-lane Via Aurelia, a relic of the Roman Empire, Agnesi's Imperia businessmen air-freight their goods to Scandinavia more easily than they can ship it to Rome. From their isolated offices, they ring up the highest long-distance telephone bills...
...SERVANT is Director Joseph Losey's slick, frequently spellbinding study of class distinction in Britain. Dirk Bogarde contributes a perfect blend of good manners and menace as the "gentleman's gentleman" who destroys his master...
...nirvana (or the utter annihilation of self) to minister to the needs of mankind. Also in between are the yidams, bristling with many pairs of arms brandishing weapons, who are often sensuously pictured in copulation with their female consorts to symbolize the final union in Buddhahood where the sexes blend together. Nepalese art not only revolves around this Oriental theology but also helps the individual attain...
...Production of Orestes expecting the usual formal harmony of Greek drama. Sophocles is reported to have said that whereas he represented people as they should be, Euripides represented them as they are. And director Alfred Guzzetti seems to have had Sophocles' interpretation in mind; his Orestes is an arresting blend of the tragic, melodramatic, and sometimes even the comic which, at least until the end, is always human...