Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever ready, flinging himself into the middle of the trash-talking down the stretch. He's not afraid to mix it up, and after taking a couple of whacks at a loose puck in the crease, he found himself in one of the quasi-brawls you'll ever see in college hockey...
Religion can also complicate the mix. Manystudents say that finding someone of the samereligious background is important to them...
Writers submitting to Expose are entering a "contest" to about the same extent as writers submitting to, say, The New Yorker; and the magazine's editors, looking for what they think are the best essays and the best mix of types, "fix" the selecting to about the same extent as New Yorker editors...
...denies any trouble and says the rapid turnover is to be expected. "We feel it's important that we remain as flexible as we can," she says. "Because its experimental, you don't know what mix will work." The fact is, though, that renting and re-renting shops every three to six months is a very expensive way of doing business. And no smart landlord wants as rapid a turnover as that...
...That mix of confusion and spellbinding tension is Pinter's trademark: it is never quite clear what is happening, but whatever it is, it is urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting...