Here is some of Frey's prose, ladled up from the huge pitcher in which he has blended events, ideas, dialogue and dozens of pages of Wikipedian trivia relating to everything from Los Angeles's freeways to its neighborhoods and street gangs into a sort of verbal fruit smoothie every sip of which has the same consistency.
As we have explored with skateboards, branching and blending events take place within particular economic and social contexts.
The ensemble series, which seamlessly blended current events, stark drama, soap opera and outrageous comedy, was created by Steven Bochco, who co-created the groundbreaking ensemble police drama "Hill Street Blues," and Terry Louise Fisher, a former L.A. County prosecutor and a producer on "Cagney & Lacey".
You blend together events, people and places, stir in ideology, and presto, you have a docudrama version of reality.
The publisher, First Second Books, describes the strip, called "Zahra's Paradise," as "real-time historical fiction," blending current events with fictional composites of actual Iranians.
This is largely a back-room process, but it is blended with public events with allies, like the stage-managed doctors.
Martin blended these two events to create the infamous Red Wedding – the massacre at the marriage feast of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey, when a host of the programme's leads (King Robb Stark, his wife, Queen Talisa, his mother, Lady Catelyn, and all his men-at-arms) were ruthlessly slaughtered.
The undercover officers went to the HyperGlow event and blended in with the crowd, with the ultimate goal of buying drugs.
It was as if two seemingly separate events were blended together, allowing the chicest of adults and the rowdiest of kids their own French escape.
The very best of his novels are hard-to-put-down page-turners where the reader cares deeply about characters who are skilfully blended in with real events, which act as a well-delineated backdrop to the main narrative.
