Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, the set-up of the museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over...
...built. Five years ago, eager tipplers stood four deep at the bar in spots like Ramon's and The Surf during the Friday afternoon happy hours. The drink of the day was a vicious concoction called a "moonshot" (two-thirds 151-proof dark rum and one-third vodka mixed with cream). Now the drinking ranks are older and sparser, and it is difficult to find a bartender who remembers how to mix a moonshot...
...familiar mix-the gaunt but unmarked face and the insinuating nasal rasp. He slouches buzzing over his guitar, his voice dry as locusts. Then, without warning, Bruce Springsteen rears back and uncorks a geyser of white hot sound. Cataracts of electrically charged fragments of sound lacerate the air, scattering intimations of Dylan and colliding with the fierce rhythms of Springsteen's own wild fusion of rock, jazz and folk rock...
...what made me do it. Just for a lark, I guess. Want to make the night more exciting. You know what I'd like to do some day? They think we're nothing. We're the center of communications. I'd like to pull all those plugs out and mix them all up. Wouldn't that be great! I'd like to do that." The woman says she loves her job, see, so she's marvelous...
...ahead, then, a mix of public and private sectors...