Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Small investors, says John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, "should close their eyes and wait it out." Many individuals have fled to the relative safety of diversified mutual funds, such as Fidelity's Asset Manager, which spreads out risk by investing in a mix of stocks, bonds and money-market instruments...
...surprising is it that the Red Hot Chili Peppers' recently released collection of greatest hits is worse than their last album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik? Certainly a contradiction, but because the tracks from Blood display a highly polished style and a new mix of funk and soul, any greatest hits collection that did not include all but a few of the 17 songs from Blood would have been a disappointment...
Also missing are two from Mother's Milk: "Subway to Venus," with superb bass lines and a great horns section, and "Sexy Mexican Maid," an excellent example of the Peppers' ability to mix funk and thrash. Their absence especially hurts as one can only wonder why the group included the 17th song, the horrific and banal "Catholic School Girls Rule," and the last song "Johny Kick a Hole in the Sky," which is little more than mediocre...
...HAVE JUST HEARD FROM OUR OLD friend the Magazine Maven. "The NEW YORKER," he writes, "is the journalistic equivalent of a restaurant under new management. The new maitresse d' is Tina Brown, lately of Vanity Fair, where she offered a heady mix of roadhouse and haute cuisine. She has replaced Robert Gottlieb, whose fern-bar ambiance left customers hungry for less. Brown's detractors have been hoping for the souffles to fall and the drinks to be watered at Tina's Place, but her debut last week will disappoint them...
West Indian poet Derek Walcott, a former visiting Harvard professor who departed the University in a cloud of controversy 10 years ago, won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday for his writings evoking the cultural mix of the Caribbean...