Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent poll, commissioned by the American Council on Education and conducted by researchers at UCLA, claims that our classmates, the nation's college first-years, are a strange mix of boredom and ambition. While the polls central focus is the students' attitudes towards their schooling, the wording of the questions makes grander conclusions about the spiritual and intellectual state of college students. Reading of the poll in The New York Times, we are likely to get the impression that our classmates are bored not merely with their classes, but with life, and that they are single-mindedly focused on getting...
...year compared with physically unattractive writers of literary novels. In the publishing industry, the term "literary novel" is used to distinguish serious attempts at fiction from novels like, say, Love Story--the trash classic that the aforementioned Gore got in Dutch for suggesting was based partly on him. (The mix-up, as I understand it, came from Gore's impression that he was the model for the main character, Oliver Barrett IV, when in fact he'd been the model for a Harvard Yard lamppost near which the doomed lovers steal a kiss in Chapter...
...BEST SEASON Season 4 (1992-93) is the series' smartest: Kramer in L.A.; Jerry and George's "show about nothing"; the show in which Susan's father is revealed to be John Cheever's lover; The Master of My Domain episode; The Virgin and The Bubble Boy shows. A mix of high and low, of the self-referential and the hip, of things underfoot and out of left field...
...Moby's mind, though, nothing mixes so well with the ecstasy culture as punk. As he plunged into "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," the dancers began to pogo. While an odd mix, it worked; the following Bond theme progressed from speed metal to pounding funked-up house. Not content with this excursion into rock, Moby decided that the show needed a guitar solo, and noodled for a couple of minutes. The crowd was variously amused and disgusted; some were upset that they'd been tricked into watching Def Leppard-style musical onanism. The pounding techno soon resumed...
Ecstasy and punk, it turns out, mix surprisingly well...