Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dismissed as a gullible dupe. To many viewers, Hillary's full-throated defense on the Today show in January, in which she blamed her husband's enemies for the scandal, was pure spinning for her man. But it was easy for her to believe that the same amalgam of right-wing moneymen, zealots and Clinton haters who had launched investigations into (and made movies about) whether Vince Foster was murdered could be behind a starstruck groupie suddenly in the clutches of both Ken Starr and Paula Jones' lawyers. Certainly, if she believed the charges against her husband, the lawyer...
...given way to the towering if scaly athleticism pioneered by H.R. Giger's mantid man-eaters in the Alien series. And while the snub-nosed, micro-eared Godzilla of the '60s and '70s had a vaguely mammalian mien--appropriate for a creature whose Japanese name, Gojira, is an amalgam of kujira (whale) and gorira (gorilla)--the fin-de-siecle Godzilla has a crocodilian brow, iguana affectations, a T. Rex crouch and a noble if dragonish chin instead of an avuncular Adam's apple. As for the radioactive breath, well, it was hard for Tatopoulos to justify, so don't expect...
Roosevelt promised--and delivered--"action and action now." His New Deal was an amalgam of "alphabet" agencies (AAA, NRA, WPA, SEC, FDIC, NLRB) and work-relief projects that set the jobless to work building dams, bridges, highways and airports. Congress enacted such now hallowed (but then seemingly radical) reforms as Social Security, unemployment compensation and federal insurance of bank deposits...
...restroom, an amalgam of Woodstock and West Side Story, has graffiti exceeding even the Lamont third floor women's room in its abundance and occasional creativity. If the industrial metal stall doors are supposed to scream Def Leppard to the child of the '80s, then the walls of psychedelic patterns straight out of Fantasia will comfort an older generation...
Ethiopian Orthodoxy is a curious amalgam of Judaic and Christian practices, African and European rituals. It is manifestly a man's religion: only males may enter the inner sanctuary where it is claimed Moses' Ark is hidden. No one knows anyone who has actually seen it, but the pilgrims are certain it is there. "They don't have to let people see it for us to believe it," says a gnarled elder. "That's the mystery." Women, he adds, are excluded because "God made the rules for mankind and women broke them...