Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performance in the KLF video "Justified and Ancient". It seems impossible that anyone could fit in to the British group's bizarre visual style, but Wynette pulls it off pretty well. And her singing part--essentially a narrative describing the genesis of her involvement with the band--provides interesting blend of country and rap. The down home balladeer spins a tale of self-referential urban creation...
Yeltsin came across as a serious statesman, repeating sweeping disarmament proposals and adding an intriguing suggestion: a global missile-defense system that would blend Russian defense technology into the U.S. Star Wars program. Having just decreed the release of the last 10, he boasted that "there are no more prisoners of conscience in free Russia." But if Yeltsin earned high marks, Li barely passed. Despite support in the final summit declaration of "respect for human rights," Li denounced such concerns as "an excuse" for interference in a country's internal affairs...
Most of the songs do not distinguish themselves from the driving, beat-muddled lyric style of too many of today's dance songs. Cuts like "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" and "What's Goin' On" would be appreciated at a smoke-filled club where all the songs blend together. It's ironic that during "What's Goin' On," DOS raps, "Definition of Sound treating music different...
...them together is a long, slightly shaggy story the older woman relates. It is about the friendship of headstrong Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and ladylike Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), two young women of the 1930s, and it involves home cooking, wife beating and a murder. It is an uneasy blend of (among other things) whimsy, melodrama, the Ku Klux Klan and feminist sentiment that coexists rather awkwardly with the modern story. Like most movies that wish mainly to warm our hearts, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES is basically a lie. But it works. In part that's because all the actresses ground...
Imagine, trying to blend in to the general population of your own country. Well, the U.S. military wasn't going to let them get away, so it detained thousands of Panamanians, many for months, just to see if they were those wily PDF guys...