Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics don't mix," Saudi Arabia's King Feisal once proclaimed, brusquely rebuffing arguments that he should cut off oil to nations that supported Israel. In the energy-crisis years of the '70s, however, oil and politics not only mix; they form an entirely new -and dangerously explosive-element in the equation of world power. That reality was made all too plain last week by Feisal himself. Speaking more strongly than ever before, he very clearly warned the U.S. that its support of Israel might be at the price of Saudi oil -oil that the U.S. will...
...strutting, eyes popping, cakewalking at treble speed, as if she were strobe-lit from the inside. Midler has, as the French say, a world on her balcony, and it threatened to topple right out of her purple satin slip as she flounced across the stage to snipe at a mix-up by her band with dime store hauteur: "This act is shabbay, I'm telling you; tray shabbay...
Unfortunately, the Washington breakdown was far from an isolated occurrence. In addition to the traditional hardships of the concert circuit - captious critics, eccentric plane schedules, hotel-room mix-ups - pianists have lately been coping with a rash of recalcitrant and faulty instruments. "Twice in two weeks I've had the keys come right off the piano," says Byron Janis. "In Flagstaff, Arizona, I was in the middle of Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before...
...kitchen, and their disaster-crammed TV screens for the lean prospect glimpsed from the Olsons' attic window. Small wonder, then, that Wyeth's critics have dismissed "the other Andy" (as one of them, thinking of Warhol, called him) as a fabulist, and his images as a sentimental mix of frontierland and Cold Comfort Farm. The objection is almost political...
Granted, Harvard starts out with a sort of cream of the crop-probably more honor society members and high school quarterbacks than anyone needs. And, yes, brains mix with brains, producing some fine academic work and some excellent extracurricular groups. But most of all, you will be courted to join the legion of leaders...