Word: blends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, they come across a player (Andrew Gardner) and his acting troupe, touring the countryside with their bawdy plays of "blood, love and rhetoric." Gardner displays just the right blend of braggadacio and jaded wisdom, as when he informs the mixed-up pair that "uncertainty is the normal state." The troupe, a mute foursome of half-wits, is perfectly, wonderfully imbecilic...
Conroy tempts fate and the limits of his talent when he plays at being William Styron, John Irving and perhaps even Mark Twain, if Dr. Lowenstein's couch is considered as a raft on which Jew and Gentile drift toward enlightenment. There is also a reckless blend of Bobbsey Twins adventure and revenge fantasies usually associated with drive-in-movie horror festivals. Would you believe that after Lila, Savannah and Tom are raped by three escaped convicts, the family's pet Bengal tiger bursts in and rips the criminals into small pieces? Would you believe that no one finds...
...role of celebrity that they make themselves equally memorable for their semiprivate lives. Tennessee Williams was once described as the most famous playwright in the world; he remarked ruefully that he would rather be known as the best. In his final years Williams' talent faded, but his persona, a blend of alcoholic misbehavior, grandiose overstatement, poetic sensitivity and terminally naughty wit, raged on. To his indignation and amusement, the notoriety transcended the art. Last year brought two scandal- tinged biographies of the playwright, who died in 1983. Last week saw the arrival of a far more affectionate event, Confessions...
...Cherry Moon, this one attempts to fit a very modern one-name pop superstar into a traditional, golden-age Hollywood format. And why not? Who else has that old-time charisma? Only the bad boy and material girl of rock 'n' roll. With Prince it worked, mostly, because his blend of Little Richard and Little Egypt spiced the stew. But Madonna seems straitjacketed by her role, and Penn, for once, looks bored. She smiles, he glowers. Neither glows like the incandescent movie stars they can and will...
...resulting blend of politics and commercial advertising techniques can sometimes be startling. Democratic Senate Hopeful Wyche Fowler of Georgia satirizes the American Express commercials by strolling through a rack of clothes asking "Do you know me? I'm Congressman Wyche Fowler, and I think you are paying too much interest on bank credit cards." California's Republican Senate candidate Ed Zschau piggybacks on the popularity of Bartles & Jaymes cooler commercials by featuring two good ol' boys sitting on a front porch musing about the number of floor votes missed by Incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston. "Three hundred forty-seven of them...