Word: amalgamation
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...Glass Menagerie. Through its examination of two people on the fringe of society, The Woolgatherer attempts to deal with the inherently human condition of isolation. Rose, a poverty stricken, single woman, combines Blanche DuBois’ hysteria with Laura Wingfield’s loneliness, resulting in an intense, needy amalgam of insecurity and neurosis. Cliff (David L. Skeist ’02), her male counterpart, a misfit truck driver, is a kind of wannabe Marlon Brando who demonstrates his manly virility through his brusque, to-the-point language and pontificating monologues...
...replaced Davies, and the 1979 psychedelic Can of Bees LP—clearly influenced by the Bs: Sid Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the Beatles, the Byrds, and William Burroughs—was recorded (Hitchcock has previously described “the Soft Boys” as a Burroughs amalgam of Soft Machine and the Wild Boys). After one more switch (Seligman replaced Metcalfe on bass), the Soft Boys sound that would go on to influence the likes of the Replacements, R.E.M. and the L.A. Paisley Underground scene was solidifying...
...Sharon doesn't give in to despair. That is both the maddening and redeeming thing about her. Her yearning is real: "There is this whole spiritual existence out there and I can't get there." Her questions, however, are a cockeyed amalgam of Me-generation nostrums: "WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? HOW MANY BOOKS? HOW MANY JOURNEYS? WHAT ARE THE WORDS AND WHAT KIND OF FOOD? MACRO? MICRO? DO ROOTS FEED THE SOUL? CARROTS, TURNIPS, POTATOES? OR THE ANCIENT SONGS...
...Thompson: Not really. Basically, it's looking less and less like this collision was an accident and more and more like it stemmed from negligence. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we can see that there was an amalgam of individual mistakes - which on their own might not have amounted to anything, but all together, they create a waterfall effect that ends in disaster...
...overwhelming U.S. boom, the now blossoming eastern side of the Atlantic will continue to thrive. Yet Europe and the U.S. still have deep financial ties. If anyone needed a reminder of the connections between the two economies, it was underscored by last month's announcement from the German-American amalgam DaimlerChrysler that it was cutting 26,000 jobs, though mostly in North America...