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...attests the ever-widening U.S. interest in the arts. The quality of performance varies from aspiring and disciplined musicianship to the routine drudging of bored hacks. The classics sometimes share the scene with jazz and folk singing, often done with verve and style. There is even a hot-weather blend of classical and popular that might be dubbed popsical music. Herewith, a sampling of some distinctive U.S. festivals...
Love at Twenty, a five-part emotionless inspection of passion, is a strange blend of the plausible and the surreal. Five directors, each from a different country, have contributed to this study, and the contributions are almost chaotically diverse...
Though in foreign lands, they invincibly stayed themselves; they also showed an uncanny ability to adapt to other cultures, whether in Latin America, where they concocted a lilting lingua franca known as Spanglish, or Down Under, where they developed a spectacular sport known as Australian Rules, a blend of Gaelic football and rugby...
...Clarke believes that photophores actually protect their bearers by confusing the enemy. The fish cruising below are rather nearsighted, so they do not see the little searchlights as points of brightness. Instead, the lights blend together as in a badly focused photograph, making the silhouette look dim and fuzzy against the lighted ceiling. So the hungry fish with the upturned eyes look elsewhere for dinner...
...last episode, Tammy took her nanny goat and her shanty boat and went down the river to Seminola College to learn to talk proper. Well, the Seminola speech department must have thrown in the vowel, because Tammy is still babbling her own unearthly blend of Christopher Marlowe and Al Capp. The bayous behind her, she is now a nurse's aide in a big Los Angeles hospital...