Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become one of public TV's top shows, drawing 5 million viewers every Friday evening. WSW has done more than make its natty 6-ft. 2-in. star the most popular figure on PBS since Sesame Street's Big Bird. It has also enabled him to parlay his blend of authority and irreverence into a one-man miniconglom-erate that has both a name (Rukeyser Enterprises, Inc.) and an income that may exceed $300,000 this year...
...assorted ladies and gallants are all well done, though the tend to blend together as characters. David Eddy as Harcourt has one very funny sequence when disguised as a lisping cleric. Thomas Champion as Pinchwife starts a little slowly, but by the second act he warms to his role and becomes genuinely funny. Linda Cameron as Alithea and Lucy Stone McNeece suavely handle their parts, although Cameron could have injected a little more life into the admittedly flat part of Alithea. Even the various servants, played by Ralph Zito, Michael Miller and Andy Sellon are funny, particularly in the drinking...
Despite such gradual accommodations, Mormonism will never blend easily into the religious landscape. Ever since Jesus appeared to Smith to denounce other Christian creeds as "an abomination," the Mormons have considered themselves the one true "restored" church. While standard-brand Christianity insists that God is a spirit. Mormons believe that he inhabits a body of flesh and bone. In fact the Mormon God was once a man himself, and Mormon men can hope to become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Mormons reject such orthodox doctrines as the Trinity and original sin. In their complex eschatology, Jesus will return...
Miller began developing that blend early. When he was an infant, his storekeeper father moved the family from Bill's birthplace of Sapulpa, Okla., to Borger, a Texas Panhandle town so new that it had no jail; prisoners were chained to a log. Says Miller: "It was a life of Depression, Dust Bowl and frontier. But that environment creates strong individuals...
...sound not with the complex experimental music that he was then making but with funk and rhythm-and-blues. It turned into Head Hunters, made up of more conventional music that "a lot of people liked." Corea went roughly the same route. His recent Mad Hatter album, a lush blend of strings that borders on background music, has already sold 160,000 copies. "I used to hear rock 'n' roll and go 'Yech!' " says Corea. "But now I really dig Stevie Wonder and how he uses rhythm...