Word: fusions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your travels ever influence the menu at your restaurant? -Bryan Johnson, Hamden, Conn.I'm an old-school French chef. I ended my career cooking very rustic French food. So I'm not suddenly going to open Tony's Pan-Asian Fusion Pit. It ain't gonna happen...
...lost in his latest work. In the humorless and melancholy “Gum Thief,” Coupland seems dangerously close to falling from his observer’s perch.In attempting to expand his literary palette into the genre of modern tragedy, Coupland has created a Frankenstein-esque fusion of his illustrious satirical past and his shaky dramatic future. Coupland writes his characters into a perpetual search for commiseration, for stability, and for an escape from the human shells around them that serve as a constant reminder of their own mortality. In his fitter form, Coupland would make short...
...Depending on whom you ask, this odd fusion of commentary and commerce is either a clever form of social activism or blatant moral hypocrisy - arresting contemporary art as easy exploitation. No one, for sure, can deny Toscani's ability to grab your attention. Shocking is again how many are describing his latest creation, a billboard and newspaper campaign for an Italian clothing line that features a stark photograph of a naked anorexic woman. On Friday, the image was summarily banned by Italy's advertising watchdog, citing infringements on the organization's code of conduct for exploiting an illness for publicity...
...presidential campaign in 2004. The crescendo of vocals and violins never reaches the emotional height it aspires to, and the song comes off as pleasant but jarringly un-Bosslike. “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” is another departure from the norm, an attempted fusion of Beach Boys pop and stadium rock that results in the album’s worst track. Springsteen has spent much of the past decade rallying opposition to the Bush administration, but “Magic” is relatively apolitical. The only blatant protest song is “Last...
...EUROPEANS CAN SAY they changed American jazz. But with his innovative electronic-piano playing and composing, most notably for Miles Davis in the 1960s, Vienna-born keyboardist Joe Zawinul pioneered the electrified genre of jazz fusion. He wrote the title song on Davis' first electric-jazz album, In a Silent Way, and later co-founded the seminal jazz-rock band Weather Report, which he led for 15 years. Zawinul...