Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mallory explains he has no use for an oven; the hot plate on the sink is more than adequate for Michael and him. Beneath the sink all the drawers of the kitchen cabinet have been pulled out, leaving holes. In an aluminum pie plate on the table, cigarette ashes mix with the remains of a crust. The ceiling is water-stained around a circular fluorescent bulb. The walls are yellow, sallow in the darkening room...
Michael was in the catbird seat for job choices, and through a network of friends he picked Atlanta and legal services for the poor. Elizabeth threw herself into expanding her cooking skills. They spent their money on art, food and wine. They found dinner parties, with the right mix of wits, a favorite form of entertainment. Michael loved "doing the wines," as he called it, and Elizabeth adored "orchestrating as much as possible beforehand, so that I could zip into the kitchen at the last minute without missing much of the conversation...
...addition to inevitable tributes to Bob Dylan, "the Boss," and Elvis Costello, more daring individuals mix music with their theory...
While none of Wednesday night's employees had any dangerous or threatening experiences at the store-to relate, a former employee who stopped in for some dried fruit mix at 1:45 a.m. did remember one of his last nights at the store...
...OFTEN we think of the men who make our important national decisions as intellectually incapable of their jobs, morally corrupt, ideologically arrogant, or lacking the necessary mix of toughness and finesse. Too often we are right...