Word: melded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public eye. The album has its share of stinkers -- the accordion-driven Bugs, for example, sounds like something circus clowns might perform before a Greenwich Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable, and you can't forget...
Richard Wagner envisioned something he called a Gesamtkunstwerk -- an all- encompassing work of art -- that would meld music, poetry, drama, dance and stagecraft into one unified, glorious spectacle. The Minimalist composer Philip Glass, 57, has been inviting comparison with Wagner ever since the 1976 debut of his four-hour epic Einstein on the Beach, Wagnerian in length and scope if not in idiom; and the Wagnerian ideal has been evident in much of his later work as well -- in Hydrogen Jukebox's marriage of Minimalism to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1990), and in 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof...
First, think of a beginner's guide to philosophy, written by a schoolteacher for teens and young adults. Next, imagine a fantasy novel -- something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass. Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international best seller...
...tunes and popular chestnuts -- is divided so that the three men toss the melody back and forth, each singing part of every song. There is some mild one-upmanship: Domingo sustains a high note, it seems, for several bars; Pavarotti's eloquent eyebrows start working overtime. But the songs meld seamlessly, and that is the result of cooperative effort...
Austin W. So has a lot to learn. Just because he is ready to meld into some mold that others created for him does not mean that everyone has to do so. Since the SATs are culturally biased and he insists that "African American and Latino students [should] know what those things are [dividends, shareholders, checkmate, and chess]," he should also support the idea of integrating their cultural ideas in the test, and insist that everyone else learn them, too. Wouldn't it be nice if we were all familiar with the insignificant aspects of every culture that only...