Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that sequence Steven Soderbergh, working territory far removed from his sex, lies, and videotape, efficiently reveals the sweet blend of imagination and practicality that animates his principal character and the sympathetic yet unsentimental approach with which he will recount his subsequent adventures...
Unfortunately, the climax and finale of the piece did not expand the whole but only continued it in predictable progression. The horns seemed to disappear by the end of their solos, and the bells did not really blend into the full landscape of the climax. Mehta later proved that the Israel Philharmonic was capable of true force, but here the power of a Brahms finale, even of such a relatively inconsequential piece, was noticeably lacking...
Harvard chemists have come up with a substance that in theory should be harder than diamond, considered the hardest substance on earth. The new synthetic material is a blend of carbon and nitrogen (diamond is all carbon), and if the researchers can make a chunk big enough and pure enough to test, they'll be able to see whether the theory is correct...
Unfortunately, as Nelson writes, she was not always able to help herself adjust to the demands of mainstream journalism. A gifted prose stylist, she could not blend her need to write from a black perspective with the ostensibly objective stance of a conventional daily. Post editors claimed that they recruited Nelson because they valued her viewpoint. But when she wrote wrote anything with a point of view, they usually buried the story in the back pages or didn't publish it. Increasingly frustrated by second-rate assignments and alienated from her peers, Nelson veered toward an emotional breakdown. Her last...
...BOTTOM LINE: Cerebral pleasures yield to emotional pain in a wry blend of Byron, biographers, physics and gardens...