Word: blending
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Nevertheless, the major task Scalise faces each year is to blend a lot of individual talents together into a team. To get an idea of what he will have to work with in the spring, the coach arranged a scrimmage with Army this fall...
Like the coffee or tea break in the West, the perekur is one of the favorite indulgences of Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health...
Somehow it works, Savannah's zany blend of romance, dress-up and the late late show. The songs are mostly about love. But August Darnell's lyrics, shaped by Singer Cory Daye's sweet husky alto, extend beyond the "boogie down" formula. Cherchez la Femme tells the story of a man who takes two jobs to spring his girl from debt, only to have her seek solace elsewhere while he is gone...
Kaufman and Ferber have embodied--but never too seriously--this peculiar blend of love and commitment in the figure of the late Aubrey Cavendish, the patriarch of this royal family of the theater, whose portrait hangs high on the wall in the Cavendish living room. The great Aubrey Cavendish never quit. He allowed himself time off from his work only once in his life, after finishing the last performance of his last tour, which was ending that night. He did all four curtain calls and only when the curtain had dropped for the last time did he allow himself...
...Fallows translates this change of temperament into his writing, trying to blend but not resolve the personal and political, "on the one hand being sensitive about what's good in people...being willing to understand their human richness, while, on the other hand, you are still willing to say what you think they are doing wrong...the purest kind of criticism is when you put yourself in their place, and then you can more persuasively say. This is how you're getting screwed up, and these are the sorts of traps to avoid--as opposed to just lecturing them about...