Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does it only seem that way? In her second novel, Sheila Bosworth, a New Orleans native, evokes her home state and its people with elegiac grace and gusts of humor. The combination goes down as smoothly as bourbon mixed with bitters and sugar, a drink that has "the transcendent blend of passion and troubles and sweet pity...
Though seclusion in a Berlin studio enabled U2 to produce the industrial grunge and searing riffs of "The Fly," the innovative blend of a wicked guitar groove with vocals ranging from gospel heights to darkly sexual depths could not be effectively reproduced in concert...
Last week's show was the usual blend of acerbic wit and creatively outrageous expropriations of popular songs. Songs like "Stand By Your Klan" and "If I Weren't a Rich Man" (with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
...mentioned most often is a tax cut for middle-income Americans. For conservative Georgians, he unveiled a new promise: "insisting that those on welfare move into the workplace." His commercials make good use of Clinton's rapport with the camera. His media adviser, Frank Greer, manages to blend the candidate's persona and platform into a seamless series of spots...
...open the new Paramount theater -- a symbolic act in itself -- back in September with a volley of his favorite Broadway standards, he was the latest of several Pop stars to declare for the old-time religion: Maureen McGovern, Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon have all issued neoconservative albums, to blend right in with your Bennetts and Clooneys and Sinatras, while several talented young singers, such as Andrea Marcovicci, Mary Cleere Haran and Harry Connick Jr., actually seem to have been born that...