Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your ears as you walk to put pellets of feed in place for a new experiment. The smell is a bit overpowering, but this anticipation of finding the missing link to your conception of a society governed by three simple, incontravertible rules makes you forget...
Stories written about bars become tiresome after a while. The faces, the cigarette smoke, the chatter and chintzy music tend to blend into an indistinct, sickly blather. And the same, hopefully, will happen with what has become the "in" bar in Washington, the White House. Then, perhaps, the American public will learn what the new president is really like...
Caro's treatment of Moses is a fine blend of appalled contempt for the man himself and grudging respect for his enormous achievement. The only way to build things on the scale Robert Moses wanted to build them was by wielding political power on a commensurate scale. But after years in office, Moses became, predictably, less and less concerned with building and more and more concerned with power. Governors came and governors went, mayors were able to govern New York City or they were not, but Robert Moses remained in control of the fiefdom he had built...
...garde sense of the word. Bogdanovich sticks strictly to the traditional narrative film, so much so that editing is kept to a minimum. Instead he prefers smooth transitions within scenes: the long-shot, dolly-in and pan. The colors are rich, almost too opulent--the Victorian chambers begin to blend into each other in a boring kind of luxuriance, and that doesn't help the sometimes tedious dialogue...
...sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory, but as if to compensate, made a clever LP (Spaces) three years ago with Davis Alumni McLaughlin, Corea and Cobham as his partners...