And in Central Florida, the growth brings together a fascinating blend of theme-park entertainers, video-game designers, residential craftsmen and affluent retirees who all mix together in a tropical gumbo full of saints and scoundrels you won't find anywhere else in the world.
Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series has always presented a curious blend of serious themes (nuclear war, military corruption) with action-movie humour and theatrics.
David Wax Museum Charlie Gillett Stagee, Sat 6pm) Infectious, good-time music from the American duo of David Wax and Suz Slezak, with their highly original blend of Mexican themes and Americana.
Mike Walker and Jonathan Myerson's adaptation homes in brilliantly on Grossman's blend of huge themes and epoch-shaping events with small snapshots of ordinary life, as he traces the fate of one middle-class Russian Jewish family against the background of the battle of Stalingrad.
Davey Graham, who also recorded as Davy Graham, and has died aged 68 of lung cancer, was the undisputed guitar hero of the British folk-blues clubs in the early and mid-1960s: a remarkable and wildly inventive musician, he transformed the acoustic scene with performances that were startling and unique for their blend of traditional themes with blues, jazz and even Indian or Arabic influences.
His music CD, Laughing Buddha, is an eclectic blend of Buddhist-themed rock tunes.
As he hopscotches around the country, delivering speeches that blend the themes of John Lennon with an ardent defense of the working class, Mr. Kucinich -- a slim man at 5-foot-7, 135 pounds -- has become the boutique candidate for peace activists and Hollywood liberals.
The blend of modern and Islamic themes continues inside, where Mr. Pei draws most directly from religious precedents.
His theodicy is thus a blend of Neoplatonic and biblical themes and shows clearly the immense influence of Neoplatonism upon Christian thought during its early formative period.
Esbjorn Svensson Trio Plays Monk (1996) Svensson's trademark sound with his trio EST is a blend of melodic, somewhat Pat Methemeslike themes, classical music, rock vamps and fluent jazz soloing in often unjazzy contexts.
