Word: blends
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...House system itself fails to live up to its promise of an environment that blend social and intellectual experiences. Students and tutors usually eat separately. Professors rarely leave the posh Faculty Club to slum in undergraduate dining halls. When they do, they sit together in intimidating clumps most students feel they can't approach...
...removed from his writing-performing persona of a hard-rap hustler. For the most part, he speaks quietly, his light brown eyes narrowing as he makes a point. At an even 6 ft., light skinned and dressed casually but neatly with his Nike shoestrings tied just so, he can blend into the crowd at his usual hangouts, from Spago to Red Lobster Inn. He relishes the rewards of his success -- his house in the Hollywood hills, for example, where he lives with his girlfriend Darlene Ortiz and their six-month-old baby boy; his collection of half a dozen sports...
...major part of Voyager's success is duedirectly to the way Ed Stone has managed thescience program all these years," the AtlantaJournal-Constitution wrote in 1989. "He is anunusual, perhaps unique, blend of brilliantmultidisciplinary scientist and intuitivemanager...
...waking dream. The world these characters inhabit has been declawed." That led to a deliberately overstated, cartoonish style. For crap-game organizer Nathan Detroit, who was gruff and menacing as played by Bob Hoskins in London, Zaks cast Nathan Lane, a patently harmless hyperkinetic who comes on as a blend of Jackie Gleason and Bugs Bunny...
...drop in Bush's popularity -- they cannot be sure how it will play. Will frightened voters respond to stern pledges to restore law and order, or heed calls for new efforts to heal racial animosity, or demand some elusive combination of both? Unable to fix immediately on the right blend, candidates instinctively responded by trying to place blame, while piously denying that they were doing any such thing. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater initially blamed Democratic Great Society social programs enacted in the '60s and '70s that had backfired -- a statement so widely derided that Bush quickly amended...