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It was an incredible experience, in the cinema the mixture of Wagner and powerful (if somewhat violent) images were almost overwhelming.
If one rates a film on visuals alone, Fellini's SATYRICON would surely be completely off the scale: a phantasmagorical mixture of sensual beauty and the distasteful but evocative grotesque set in an ancient Rome that never was, never could have been, and yet which plays up to every extreme concept we secretly harbor about Roman decadence.
The cast is a bizarre mixture of old and new faces, with Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Brooke Adams as stewardesses, Sonny Bono as a has-been musician, Polly Bergen as a flirtatious, drunken writer, Molly Picon and Walter Pidgeon as chummy oldsters, Hugh O'Brian (looking like Hugh Hefner) as a police detective, Danny Bonaduce as a 13-year-old prankster, and Robert Stack in the Charlton Heston role of the no-nonsense pilot (there are two other Stacks listed in the credits, perhaps making this a family affair).
The film really defies any kind of categorizing... it's a mixture of many genres - comedy, film noir, horror, science fiction and something all of itself - which was refreshing because the film defied expectations.
Asia’s View of the Greek CrisisSEOUL – Asian countries have been watching the Greek crisis unfold with a mixture of envy and schadenfreude.
The American World Turned Upside DownPARIS – From Washington, the enthusiasm of the French for intervention in Libya is seen with a mixture of relief and puzzlement.
Time is needed, she says, to build a state and construct a democracy – time and a mixture of pragmatism and faith, of patience and audacity, of respect for others and regard for oneself.
As a Frenchman who watched with a mixture of sadness and humiliation the behavior of the French national team, on and off the field (happily, the torture is over), the image in the mirror makes a lot of sense.
It is likely to take the form of an opaque global credit glut, turbocharged by the fragile mixture of too-big-to-fail global banking with a huge and largely unwatched and unregulated shadow banking sector.
Throughout our lives, we are exposed to a complex mixture of food compounds.
3.A deal that supports, through a mixture of both public and private financing, the infrastructure required to shift to a low-carbon economy.
They arise from a kind of blindness, combined with a strange mixture of alienation, guilt, and fear toward both Israel and America.
The Kim family’s tyranny is based on a mixture of ideological fanaticism, vicious realpolitik, and paranoia.
Instead, the reform proposals have opted for a mixture of higher capital requirements for leading banks and pre-funding of deposit insurance by a special levy on banks.
This fate is its own “Babel,” a confused mixture of memories and places.
But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.
Since the cuprates first appeared, a variety of other “high temperature” superconductors have been discovered – one is a simple compound of magnesium and boron, and another involves a mixture of iron and arsenic.
For Yeltsin, Kohl is his trusted interlocutor in the West; for Kohl, Yeltsin personifies the mixture of old and new which is Russia today.
Someone may say: “It’s a bit of a curate’s egg”, when he means that something is a mixture of good and bad.
Trump’s Italian PrototypeTOKYO – The rise of billionaire Donald Trump in the US presidential race has been met with a mixture of horror and fascination.
To this end, an independent commission – composed of a mixture of national and international experts – should be established to build on the work of the unofficial Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission.
Today, living and working in cosmopolitan Nairobi, I look back with a mixture of horror and bemusement on my girlhood fascination with female circumcision.
But, with a mixture of moroseness and voluntary submission, they now know that they must face their limitations.
You are watching with legitimate concern (and a mixture of astonishment and anger) as Europe’s crippling debt crisis spreads and America’s dysfunctional politics leave it unable to revive its moribund economy.
Each caste contained a varying mixture of landless laborers, cultivators, and landlords.
The Brexit TragicomedyPRINCETON – As the rest of the world looks on with a mixture of amusement and pity, British politics in the age of Brexit has come to resemble a soap opera.
Baseline regulation would be the typical mixture of the two, but individual banks could opt for substantially higher capital requirements in exchange for permission to engage in riskier investments and operations.
Leveraging a mixture of administrative guidance and monetary incentives, the city government plans to reduce the share of garments in the output of textiles products by 25% in three years and to increase the industrial applications of chemical fibers, which promise much higher returns than apparel production.
Hwang Jang-yop, North Korea’s former chief ideologist and its most senior defector to the South, describes North Korea as a mixture of “socialism, modern feudalism, and militarism.”
First, the nuclear fuel is not seawater, but a mixture of the two heavy isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, a radioactive element that has been produced in small quantities for hydrogen bombs.
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