Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After 25 years as a singer, comedian, actress and a heavenly blend of all three, the lady has earned her halo. It may be mild hyperbole to call Midler the greatest entertainer in the universe -- there are, after all, other galaxies yet to be explored -- but who can doubt she's the hardest-working woman in show biz? In New York City, where she stars until Oct. 23 in the longest stop of her first tour in a decade, Bette is poetry in perpetual motion, from her prompt entrance at 8:10 (royalty is always punctual) to her exhausted departure...
...more egregious, and widely committed, offenses of sloganeering has been the overuse of derivatives of Reebok's "Life is Short...Play Hard." I've always thought the slogan a rather curious blend of epicurianism and stoicism. Reebok plays to the American propensity for play, but also to the remnants of our Protestant work ethic, reminding us that Life is Short, and so any playing must be done sedulously. Sweaty joggers and wellmuscled mountain-bikers parrot the line with fitter-than-thou reproachfulness...
...BOTTOM LINE: Myth and reality blend unsentimentally in a lovely, lively fairy tale about modern Ireland...
This year the league is strong from the top to bottom. But with its four Fab Frosh and a talented blend of returners, the Crimson is primed to make a run at the league title...
Although he says digging on his allotted square was "grunt work," Glew says he was fascinated to be part of a blend...