Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimate worth. But its appeal is wide. "I wouldn't be surprised if some farmer in Iowa listens to George Winston while plowing his fields," says Keith Eckerling, a record-store-chain vice president in Chicago. And its possibilities are promising. In multiracial, heavily Asian California, an authentic fusion of Oriental and Occidental music has been under way since Composer Lou Harrison experimented with the Balinese gamelan orchestra before World War II. And the healthy interaction between the rock and "classical" avant-gardes, which bore fruit a decade ago in the creative synergy between Tangerine Dream and minimalist composers like...
...students can choose from among 250 courses, ranging from "Econmetric Modeling and Business Forecasting" to "The Evolution of Modern jazz Through Jazz Rock and Fusion." In addition, the Summer School offers a special six-week dance program, an eight-week Ukranian culture institute and the Health Professions Program, a program for minority and disadvantaged students...
...symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there can be no doubt that in his hands, at least, it was a powerful union...
...youth has lost the flute that was the sole consolation for his affliction and the painting of Buddha that was his talisman. Now he wanders to the edge of a precipice, oblivious of being poised unseeing between life and death. His condition symbolizes for Kurosawa the human condition. The fusion of metaphorical weight and simple beauty in these shots also summarizes Ran's greatness. Outrage has already been voiced that partly because of industry politics in Japan, the movie has been denied an Oscar nomination as best foreign film. But in fact Ran is beyond such transitory concerns...
...helmet and the subdued tonality of the face makes one deeply conscious of both the tangible and intangible forces in Rembrandt's world, and of their inseparable inner relationship," Jakob Rosenberg of Harvard wrote in Rembrandt, Life and Work. "As in all his greatest works, one feels here a fusion of the real with the visionary, and this painting, through its inner glow and its deep harmonies, comes closer to the effect of music than to that of the plastic arts...