Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drug dealers are drawn to housing developments because it is easier for them to blend in with other residents, says William B. Cunningham, president of the Putnam Gardens' Tenant Council, a public housing development...
...Orlando is a theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan and Dolphin hotels in Florida...
However, Prine sounded much more natural on his own than when trying to blend his nasal, gruff voice with Timmins' quiet, smooth one. In his opening set, Prince's country style and simple, honest lyrics won the audience's tremendous enthusiasm. His "It's a Big Ol' Goofy World," which rambled with a ridiculous quality reminiscent of Bob Dylan, even provoked whoops and hollers of delight...
...giant computer-generated glove, or scenery changing with the tapping of a computer key. "3-D is an old technique," explains Coates, "and computer graphics is a new one. There were no rules for mixing them. We made them up as we went along." The result is a blend of film, computer projections and reality -- whatever that is -- that has the viewer wondering, Is it live, or is it Macintosh...
...being a keyboardplayer sometimes, or take on the role of a bigpercussion section at any one point song.Sometimes there isn't much distinction [betweenkeyboard and electronic drums]. I play someoutright keyboard sounds that might be hard toplay in the keyboard because it's repetitive orwhatever. I hope to blend that more in the futurebecause there's a lot I can do with...