Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About two dozen of us stood with unlit candles, gathered in front of Memorial Church to remember the swiftest and most violent bloodletting of our time--the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Dusk would blend into night with the grace of a returning spring, but none of us noticed. Our attention was instead focused on a slew of academics, activists victims who with a moving mixture of eloquence, pomp and passion, described those three months of unbridled insanity and lamented the rediscovered hollowness of slogans like "Never Again...
...this identity crisis be traced back to Ben-Gurion and the founding mothers and fathers of Israel? Were they no more than a bunch of lunatics, attempting to perform on a 20th century stage a bizarre blend of biblical yearnings, 19th century nationalism, socialism and Jewish Messianism? Did Ben-Gurion, at the end of the day, devote his life to a fleeting, surreal vision of resurrecting the Jewish people as a modern, democratic nation in their ancient land...
Yesterday, Hughes' blend of in-your-face lesbian sexuality and humor did not appear to shock anyone in the audience, which ranged in age from about 20 to 35, except for a pair of 60-somethings...
...problem because you want to have a good blend of new people, new approaches," Jenkins said. "You're missing a generation without junior faculty...
...Royal Shakespeare Company, developing a craft free of theatrical folderol. "You learned how to do Shakespeare with two tables and four chairs," he says. "Theater is not about illustrating, not about decorating. It's about building images from the inside out. That's frightening for actors. They can't blend into the scenery...