Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student said that a similar mix of ideals and real considerations had caused the protests. "The students hate the government," he said. "They want to live in a democracy. After ten years, they can't see any change in China...
...mind, the Warsaw Pact could suppress a nuclear strike from NATO aircraft and thus lower the cost factor sufficiently so that they might conclude they could win a war in Europe that would be worth winning. That's why having nuclear missiles in Europe is essential to the overall mix...
HARVARD prestige is not contagious or genetic. Most grandparents have had little connection to this type of community. A friend's grandparents get Harvard confused with Hartford, mine mistake it for "Harward," others mix it up with Howard. Harvard is so far from their lives and achievements that they are not the ones to keep the myth alive...
...best approached in a fruit-cocktail state of mind. With its amiable aliens getting their pop culture out of a TV set and its hydraulic surf bunnies singing "I can't spell VW but I got a Porsche, / 'Cause I'm a blond," Earth Girls sounds like a quick mix of E.T. and Beach Blanket Bingo. But it's really a revved-up tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts...
...mix of substance and style are disappointing. Temple is more memorable for its enjoyable story of three marriages than for its message about religion, which is, I think, what an author of the caliber of Walker wanted to convey. Pop style and deep ideas just do not mix in any effective way. As a quick read the book is quite good, but Walker fails to present a moving story...