Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things Gens likes about photography, she said, is that it's easy to mix work and play, "I try to go places and do things and take pictures while I'm there," she said, adding, "It's nice not having the academic pressure...
...just happens to have made a fortune in the perfume industry, dropped out of civilization, and live on a tiny deserted island. Add a wealthy New York wife who keeps track of her husband via a Miss Mark--a photo-snapping snoop in tourist a clothing. Mix in the usual Venezuelan traffic jams and customs officials. Spice it up with a few out-of-the-ordinary difficulties--such as transporting a red gas stove across an ocean on a tiny boat--and the recipe sounds complete. But not quite...
...firms freely exchange files with each other; thus a mistake made by one of them can be quickly compounded. The commission found that credit bureaus often mix up people with similar names, resulting in unwarranted refusals of credit. The firms can keep adverse information on file for up to seven years so a deadbeat who reforms cannot easily start afresh...
Originally a simple mix of ranchers and stucco dwellers California society had become an exotic mélange riddled with hippies, surfers and executive dropouts. Out of this sprang a mutant pop culture. "Do your own thing" was the golden rule; ambivalence was its only sin. Mid-life divorce, recreational nudity and "Sunshine" LSD were all tolerated in the land of the topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began...
...sculptures installed throughout the summer in Paris' new Tinkertoy Louvre, the Pompidou Center, is one of the most eagerly awaited modern art exhibitions in years. Its theme is epic. For 75 years, a deep current of cultural influence ran between France and America, bearing with it a rich mix of avant-garde nutrients. From 1900 to the end of World War II it flowed west, so that the forms of American modernism were almost all based on prototypes offered by the School of Paris from Cézanne and Matisse onward -cubism, futurism, constructivism, surrealism, in fact nearly every...