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...What is striking about all this is the multiplicity of condiments that were added to one and the same dish and the care with which they were combined into a blend of often complimentary flavors," Bottero wrote in the 1987 edition of the Journal of the American Oriental Society...
...beginning, Arthur Krim, the United Artists studio boss who was also national finance chairman of the Democratic Party, was skeptical about this volatile blend of satire and surrealism -- until Frank Sinatra, the film's star, persuaded President John F. Kennedy to give his blessing to the project. Candidate opened in the fall of 1962, to mixed reviews and soft box office. "We had both sides of the political spectrum mad at us," says George Axelrod, who fashioned a terrific screenplay from Richard Condon's scathing comic apocalypse of a novel. "In Paris Communists picketed outside a theater on the Champs...
...scene was a bizarre blend of whimsy, fashion and rage. As antigovernment protesters gathered on the Via Espana in downtown Panama City last week, some of the women sported designer sunglasses and diamond-stud earrings to go with their smart dresses and slacks. Clapping in rhythm, the middle-class crowd jeered, "Down with Noriega! Get out, and let us eat!" When passing motorists blared their horns in approval, riot police poured from trucks bearing the painted image of Doberman attack dogs. Then from the side of the road rolled a truck hauling two water cannons inexplicably emblazoned with powder-blue...
John Updike' s latest novel sends a runaway wife to a phony ashram, where the blend of East and West, mysticism and sex is hilarious...
...President Hosni Mubarak, who in Washington two weeks ago promoted a plan calling for a six-month truce and the convening of an international conference. The Administration combined some of Mubarak's suggestions with elements of previous proposals into what Secretary of State George Shultz last week called a "blend of ideas...