Word: mix
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Country music, in case you city folk haven't noticed, is where pop music went to live. When rock 'n' roll settled into the bustling ghettos of white metal and black funk, country claimed the ears of the pop-music homeless -- those who like songs to mix catchy melodies with prickly home truths. By reaching people raised on '60s folk music and Beatles rock, country has become suburbanized. It's as much at home in malls and vans as it used to be in grange halls and pickups...
What causes the duality of desire? Most experts believe sexual orientation develops from a mix of nature and nurture, but the recipe remains a mystery. Gender may be fixed prenatally by a chromosome and a wash of hormones, but does a flood of chemicals prime the fetus for a particular sexual preference...
...proposals about how society ought to work are no less credible than anyone else's ideas. Clinton's still uneasy mix of money and civic liberalism remains untested, and certainly neither the old-style Democrats nor the Republicans offer better solutions. With no end to American's current malaise in sight, revitalizing common culture can't hurt...
...year, a teenager saw a cassette for The Rookie and said, "Look! The new Charlie Sheen movie!" That Sheen was billed below Clint Eastwood, who also directed the film, mattered not to this youth. Clint, long past his popular prime, was as old and irrelevant as Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Methuselah. To many moviegoers, Eastwood, 62, has become the character he played in Sergio Leone's westerns 25 (and a million) years ago: the "Man with No Name...
...still being added, but the tour will also hit Toronto and Montreal. The show employs nine screens, with the two largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert, the screens will carry a random, computer-triggered mix of prerecorded material, live feeds from the satellite and shots of the onstage performance. Lead singer Bono will make impromptu phone calls that will be broadcast over the speaker system. (Hello? David Letterman?) The recipients could range from the White House to a local pizza parlor. And check out the show...