Word: amalgamation
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...Thompson hasn't always been good, however, this time around he's been lucky. The anthrax scare has been a decidedly small one, with only eight infections so far and all but one caught in time. And while HHS, an amalgam of a dozen divisions that deals with everything from aging to drugs, has never been the smoothest-running machine in Washington, so far it has effectively mobilized its resources and overseen the testing of thousands and the treatment of all who have needed it. The small scale has also let Thompson maintain that we have enough antibiotics to handle...
...most intelligent and profound reactions thus far, actors from the American Repertory Theatre, the ART Institute and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club allowed cooler heads to prevail in a performance of Aftermath, an amalgam of poetry, skits, scenes and songs designed to honor the victims and to provide a chance for reflection...
...Falun Gong is an amalgam of religions and exercises that Chinese have known for centuries. Practitioners meditate during a series of ritualized motions that Li Hongzhi invented. The central tenet is that Li himself, either personally or through his books and videotapes, inserts the Falun icon, a swastika-like Buddhist emblem surrounded by yin-yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle...
...their 20s performing an array of choreographed band numbers. It?s a mix of marching-band music, baton twirling, ballet, Ed Sullivan novelty act, Blue Man Group-style performance art and a few other things that escape me at the moment. The individual elements are familiar, but the amalgam is something totally original. The drum soloists are dazzling; the unicycling trombone player a hoot; and I don?t know about you, but when I see a dozen performers toss batons 30 feet into the air and catch them at precisely the same instant a foot from the ground...
...flaunted her sensuality outrageously like some combination rock diva and exotic dancer, wriggling her hips, playing with her tongue and simulating oral sex on her bandmate’s guitar. Their four minute performance by itself was well worth the price of admission, showcasing as it did that appealing amalgam of sex and song, or as Holmes commented, “That powerful combination of turned on and scared shitless...