Word: mix
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...night. It was a strange angle to come at a murder mystery." The murders were the least mysterious element in this feral, fertile inversion of It's a Wonderful Life. Each shot was crafted with the off-center elegance and pristine passion of a modernist painter. But with its mix of battered beauties and severed ears, Blue Velvet might have been his drop-dead letter to Hollywood. Instead, it made the maverick bankable. His next big project would find takers on network...
Wideman's narrator, known as Cudjoe, is a mask for the 49-year-old author. Fiction and fact are freely blended; the style is a mix of directness and allusion reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Cudjoe, in fact, is invisible to himself. He has been an expatriate, living on a Greek island where he tended bar by day and tried to write at night...
...could argue with that, or with his insistence that the mix of spending cuts and tax hikes "must be fair; all should contribute." But when the President got to specifics, fairness became scarce. In the name of promoting economic growth, Bush renewed his support of six tax giveaways that would cost the Treasury an estimated $30 billion over five years. The most controversial of these would cut the maximum levy on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Meanwhile, he seemed to reject any increase in income taxes for high earners. Concerning reductions in domestic spending -- the most politically explosive part...
Even the powerful Times has felt the chill. Its ad linage during the first half of the year was off 13% compared with the same period in 1989. But while nobody doubts that the Times will continue, optimism about the tabloids is hard to find. The Post, a mix of catty gossip columns, conservative editorials and chest-thumping sports reporting, hasn't earned a penny in nearly two decades. Press lord Rupert Murdoch lost $150 million during the 12 years he owned the paper. He was threatening to close it down in 1988, when Kalikow, wealthy and eager to join...
Highlighting these questions are the personal documents Wolff scatters throughout The Final Club. The documents are examples of the institutionalized mix of truth and falsehood we all encounter and produce in forms like college applications. Clay's and his classmates' contributions to their alumni reports and their children's application essays to Princeton are minor works of literature compared to Pope and Dryden, but they posess a clumsy eloquence and--to their creators--are infinitely more important than some long-forgotten poem...