Word: blendings
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...black theater and vaudeville--Perry crossed the South and the largely black cities of the Midwest with his rep company of actor-singers. Making a go of such a project would be revolutionary, or counterrevolutionary, enough. But it's the tone of his plays that's startling: a violent blend of the earthy and the Evangelical...
Actually, blend is the wrong word. Perry's shows are contradictorily and simultaneously rude, forgiving, uplifting, demeaning. Comedy will get churning wildly, then stop in its tracks for a confession of spousal or child abuse. Laugh-cry, empathize-criticize: the mood changes so rapidly in these anachronistic exhibitions that they can seem defiantly postmodern...
...that promise ever since. After studying videos of the race, Jager enlisted the help of the country's National Aerospace Laboratory and TNO, a Dutch research institute, as well as companies that make aerodynamic clothing, bike coatings and wheels. The result? The so-called half-million-euro bike--a blend of science and design that uses carbon technology to increase the frame's stiffness without a significant increase in weight...
...Second, the policymakers believed that people in Iraq wanted us to win. Hadn't the Poles and Czechs celebrated when we defeated the Soviets? Hadn't Afghans cheered the overthrow of the Taliban? Swirling in the air in the spring of 2003 was an intoxicating blend of militarism and moralism. Our troops would destroy Saddam, and Iraqi gratitude would take care of the rest...
...neatly, some clumsily—but the time he takes to do so is excessive. Still, the film’s achievement lies in making use of extremes. As “Snow Angels” closes with shots of daily life, what is fictional and what is plausible blend seamlessly together, leaving the viewer just as invested in the events of that small town as its own inhabitants were. —Staff writer Denise J Xu can be reached at dxu@fas.harvard.edu