Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew I was interested in politics. I had recently become interested in art, and was deeply interested in psychology," he says. "This seemed a good way to blend the three...
...passage through the Gauntlet is a skillful blend of stunt and special- effects work, nicely orchestrated by the director, Curtis Hanson. He is less skillful at building suspense around the campsites, possibly because the screenplay is not very tightly or eccentrically wound, possibly because Bacon takes his best line too literally. "I am a nice guy," he says at one point. "I'm just a different kind of nice guy." As a result, Bacon doesn't hone Wade's menace as sharply as he might. He needs to become more erratic, more dangerous, as they paddle farther and farther from...
...Enemy's best CD, but it is lyrically provocative and musically rich. The songs are relentless, pummeling, chaotic -- something like a house party crossed with a race riot. As lead rapper Chuck D told Time: "We wanted to borrow from soul, blues, gospel and rock 'n' roll elements and blend them into something we can call our own. And make it faster...
...says Peck, an addicted and "struggling" golfer, who admits that his sport is "seemingly silly" but feels that its "blend of agony and ecstasy, work and play, caution and risk, painful serious learning and exuberant relaxation" offers something like an 18-hole way to enlightenment. Peck doesn't exactly say that if Jesus were to return to earth, he would have a 3 handicap, but wisdom and baloney might be added to his list just after agony and ecstasy. Both qualities are evident in his writings and his personality, though a surprising range of critics clearly feel that what predominates...
...come until 1991, when he played alongside the ailing Davis onstage at Montreux, Switzerland. Davis was too weak to play entire solos, so Roney would finish them for him. Davis died a few months later, and Roney's performance became legendary. Misterios, Davis- like in its jazz-pop blend, is dedicated to the legend. "He taught me to treat every note like a precious emotion," says Roney. Listening to Misterios, you know he learned his lessons well...