Word: blurs
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...Dick Gibson Show, like Portnoy's Complaint, contains enough comic material for a dozen nightclub acts. Yet it is considerably more than an entertainment. The banal and the profound, the vulgar and the touching, are humanely juggled into a vital blur-a brilliant approximation of what it is like to live with one's eyes and ears constantly open...
...advertising's hardiest conceits is that its TV commercials are better than the programs they punctuate. Trouble is, so many commercials are punctuating home-screen viewing these days that the messages blur into one another and are often lost. Now a Pittsburgh-based ad agency, Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove, thinks that it has found a way around the get-lost problem. To grab more attention for a bank in the Houston area, the agency is running the first commercials for commercials...
Even the small numbers of radical students who have tangled with Bok in two controversies generally like him, even if they do become enraged over what they consider his tendency to blur issues and "waffle" on decisions...
...discover, and the same events keep repeating themselves in wave after inexorable wave of nausea. After a cycle or two of these atrocities, all the blood has spun right out of the reader's head, the events lose all their reality, and all that's left is a grey blur of the type and the white of the page...
...especially now. Societies in turmoil often yield the best poets-reactionaries like Pound or Yeats, radicals and reformers like the Neoterics, or the War Poets. All of these have expressed rage at the conditions of society and politics in their poetry, but they have not allowed individual hatreds to blur their poetic craft. Who would remember Brooke and Sassoon, for instance, if they had written not about the monstrosity called war, but about whoever happened to be Prime Minister at the time? Since Miss Merriam has decided to center her work around Nixon, to use him as the paradigm...