Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect of finding a fresh pair of singers capable of tackling Wagner's most vocally demanding roles is only part of what's drawing opera lovers to the Pacific Northwest. This Tristan is being staged by Francesca Zambello, whose penchant for scandalizing stodgy opera buffs with a startling blend of flashy theatrics and unabashed feminism has made her the most controversial opera director of her generation. "Tristan's ship," Zambello explains gleefully, "is a huge ocean liner that has Isolde in the middle--as if she's in a womb or a prison--and the lower deck is an engine...
...readers she was after. As former editor of Vanity Fair, she was schooled in the ways of Conde Nast Publications, the Newhouse family's high-luster group of magazines, which also include Vogue and GQ. She also understood that the New Yorker was different. Watching her try to blend the sacred and profane was one of the great journalistic pastimes of recent years. Her brain was a table-of-contents mosh pit: a place where a literary memoir mixed with a dispatch from Hollywood, followed by another from Paris--Adam Gopnik on French health clubs, for instance; then some Washington...
...Even in far-flung London, ex-pats danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square till dawn. France's surprise 3-0 victory over Brazil in the World Cup final Sunday has prompted what one Parisian daily, France-Soir, called a "tricolor orgasm" -- one that looks set to blend seamlessly into Tuesday's Bastille Day celebrations. Writing in Le Parisien, one journalist even suggested that July 12 now become an official holiday, equal to July 14; a move, he said, that would "unite the two faces of the French revolution...
Thankfully, Currier has a unique director's eye, and her film clearly demonstrates a deep and committed interest in the issues it raises. On the other hand, Passion in the Desert is at times too earnest for its own good, presenting its unlikely blend of Dances With Wolves and Quest for Fire with so little humor that both the movie itself and our capacity to buy into it are seriously wobbling by the last act. An admirably spare approach and a bold confrontation with heady material save Passion in the Desert, but just barely, from being as arid and unfriendly...
Deane's silken prose eventually weaves the thousands of shards of the narrator's family together into a whole, however unhappy. His blend of the happy and solemn is moving at times, worrisome at others and fascinating always. Although Deane, a professor at Notre Dame and a published critic and poet, is no stranger to writing, Reading in the Dark is his first venture into fictional territory. The boundary between poetry and fiction, especially for Deane, with that glowing prose, is not as stringent as that between the two Irelands; with any luck, this novel will not be his last...