"That's really the powerful blend of ingredients that they bring to the table".
A powerful blend of memory and desire, they were created with the help of three extraordinary poseurs.
Martinez sees both venues as instrumental in spreading what he calls "folklore," as good a word as any for his powerful blend of African and Cuban traditions.
At Chinese school a powerful blend of Communist and Confucian ideologies demands obedience to hierarchy, bone-hard study and uncritical thinking.
The result, in her new book, "Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century," is a wayward and powerful blend of science, autobiography and imagination.
These two ways of thinking about our relationship with technology, he writes, have remained in a state of unresolved conflict: "One approach supplants humans with an increasingly powerful blend of computer hardware and software.
Most of the opposition to the beverage's tidal sweep, however, was centered in Europe, being provoked by the beer and wine interests, or by anti-American political interests, or by a powerful blend of oenology and ideology.
On "Precious Memories," which involved a powerful blend of several background singers, and "Ain't No Way," which featured Cissy Houston (though not in her original soprano role), Ms. Franklin sang with conviction, gravity and fire.
One that increasingly looks like bucking the trend is Barry Eisler.The first two books that featured Mr Eisler's Japanese-American assassin-hero, John Rain, "Rain Fall" (2002) and "Hard Rain" (2003) were written with a delightfully soft touch and a powerful blend of excitement, exotica and what (ever since John le Carré) readers have known to call tradecraft.
Ian Sample suggests that "MPs, PRs, CEOs, quacks and journalists are now being challenged by a rising army of sceptics", but it is a scepticism supported by a powerful blend of science, social science and the humanities that is moving us towards the golden age.
