Word: mix
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Despite their differences, these performers are united by a love of disunity -- by their willingness, even eagerness, to defy categorization and expectation, to mix and match several musical genres and traditions in order to make new sounds. Des'ree was born in London, but her mother is from Guyana and her father from Barbados; she spent her formative teenage years in Barbados listening to calypso and reggae, both of which can be heard gently rocking her songs today. Tricky, son of a Jamaican mother and a "half-white, half-African" father, comes from the British city of Bristol, a multiethnic...
...upbringing. The genius of the book, written when he was 23 and translated into 13 languages, was to chart the parabolic trajectory of a love, while showing that charts tell us nothing we need to know of love. De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written by Descartes...
...mixed well, he had friends all over," Tripp remembers. "Sometimes the kids you call jocks or athletes didn't mix with the geniuses, but Fred mixed well on both sides...
...Some of these jobs are very specialized interms of the mix of experience and educationneeded for them," Gardner says...
...pale as a lily because the bats drained his blood while he slept." His powerhouse wife Bernarda imports and resells flour and sleeps with the help. Their daughter Maria has rejected her European origins for the Yoruban language and ornaments of her African servants. Added to this New World mix are Abrenuncio, a Portuguese-Jewish physician suspected of necromancy, and Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest with a thirst for banned books and extraclerical activities...