Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Closely Watched Trains, Jiri Menzel's film about a young rail station guard who tries to grow up during World War II, when all stable values are in question, was one of the series of fine Czech films which emerged before the '68 freeze. Menzel creates an exhilirating mix of adolescent joy and adolescent despair; suicide takes its turn, as does hilariously playful sex. But the boy blows up with his world...
Quicksilver, Boz Scaggs, and Estus. I never could stand Quicksilver, and I've never heard of Estus, but I'm half tempted to go just to hear Boz, one of rock's unsung heroes, mix country, rock, blues, and nightclub music. The rest of the show plays as a tune-up for Dead freaks. October 31st at the AQUARIUS. 7:30 and 11 p.m. Tickets...
Returning to the South Bond turned up the charm on black delegates uncommitted to McGovern, convincing them by "sort of a mix of our persuasion and their own ability to make up their own minds" that the time was right to come out for that McGovern. "It comes down to a feeling that McGovern is going to make it with us or without us, and the general feeling is that it would be better with us," he explained...
Later, it became Braque's habit to mix sand with his paint. The gritty paste, imbued with color and resistant to the skimming eye, served two purposes. It presented his paintings as surface; and it insisted upon a slowness of inspection, parallel to the immense deliberation which Braque himself brought to the act of painting. Such works are all about explicitness: witness a masterpiece like The Pink Tablecloth, 1938, with its assembly of waterjug, book, lemons and glass enjoying their mutual silvery transparency on a pale amoebic cloth, linked together by a shaved white line that both dictates...
Unlike some older French bankers, Saint-Geours argues that "it is possible to mix social legislation with the big business of the Common Market." He adds that, "the part that business can play is in fair and socially sensitive hiring policies. Companies must not merely select candidates on the basis of training or aptitude, but must keep a strong eye out for sex, race, socioeconomic standing and need." Saint-Geours's statements have raised some eyebrows in the stuffy world of French banking. "The system is basically an old-boy net," he says, "and it overlooks dozens of qualified...