Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literary world was aghast at what the changed leadership would portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
...mix is testimony to the increasingly schizophrenic character of the Brown New Yorker. Literary gems like Francine du Plessix Gray's review of the Flaubert-Sand epistolary relationship as documented by assorted biographers share pages with tawdry baubles such as John Seabrook's near-hagiographic piece on an obscure art director (whose 15 minutes are ticking rapidly away). And why, oh why do we need to learn anything more about Kate Moss, the waifish model with the look of utter imbecility...
...store at 47 Brattle Street is large, airy, and redolent of the various flower-scented products for sale there. The clientele circulating there yesterday, a mix of college-age and older persons, seemed interested mainly in checking out the new store, though many were also making purchases...
...world is governed purely by Shari'a -- even Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, which come closest to the ideal, compromise in some ways with the modern world -- Islamists focus their ferocity on the Muslim states such as Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, which have tried to modernize and mix in elements of nationalism and Western-style democracy...
...store, which has hosted well-known poetsfrom Robert Lowell to Robert Bly, is also famedfor a somewhat mangy canine former resident,Pumpkin the dog. Pumpkin, a beagle-hound mix, wasonce featured in the Harvard Yearbook but is nowdeceased...