Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is our time," Clinton said in his Inaugural Address. "Let us embrace it." Last week he had an embrace for everyone, and not just the stars. This huggy-bear President needs to feel the electromagnetism of approval -- but in a New Age way. His seeming candor is an amalgam of born- * again witnessing and self-help testifying, of the church and the couch; you half expect his budget package to be a 12-step program. "I used to play my saxophone a lot, sometimes when I was angry but usually when I was lonely," Clinton told Mister Rogers during...
...achieve these goals, Clinton is fashioning a new amalgam of several different models for reform. The central feature of the emerging plan is so- called managed competition, under which American workers and retirees would be grouped into huge insurance pools. Employees of small companies, for example, which normally would be unable to negotiate affordable coverage for a handful of employees, would gain the advantage of being represented as part of larger worker pools. The pools would have the clout to negotiate better rates and benefits with medical providers, including hospitals and physician groups. All employers, no matter how small their...
...year, aims -- and succeeds -- at nothing less than reasserting his rightful place in the pop pantheon. Effortlessly inventive and seething with melodic and rhythmic vitality, this collection of raunchy rap riffs, detonating dance rhythms and silky soul ballads is Prince's best album in years, proving that his pioneering amalgam of funk, rock and pop is as fresh and potent as ever...
West is a man who sees no division between activism and academia; a man who believes in amalgam and has adopted this "multi-contextuality" as a means of defining himself...
Here Kaus invokes the stereotypical picture of a nation united by "Ozzie and Harriet" and World War II. By 1984 some amalgam of investment bankers and $1000 watches dominated the American culture scene. In spite of the money inequality of the 1950s, Kaus says (maybe a bit implausibly), Americans were happier then...