Word: amalgam
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...lofty disgust. Harris has captured the pathology of the present age with out gloating over it or surrendering to despair. His characters are victims, but they have shored large fragments of human vitality against their ruin. If Killing Everybody is uneven, it is also per meated by a compelling amalgam of rage and love...
...result is a chimerical amalgam of cultures, as though Chryssa's eye had got ahead of the present and were looking back on Times Square from a vantage point as remote in time from it as ours is from ancient Greece. The neons still work, but they do so with fitful spareness; a cunningly formed squiggle lights up here or there, or a labyrinth of reversed and superimposed red letters glows inside a dark plastic box. They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense...
...named this advisory group the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which was impressive enough in and of itself. Wary students understandably adopted a wait-and-see attitude; after all, who could imagine four Harvard Corporation members heeding an amalgam of students, faculty and alumni...
Consequently he decided to film India with as little personal intrusion as possible, letting the landscapes and people speak for themselves. At the same time in his laconic French accent Malle narrates his reaction to what he sees and his problems filming. The result is a successful amalgam that is both about the subcontinent and the difficulties of a Westerner trying to understand...
...Long Hot Summer (1958). A tangled amalgam of several Faulkner short stories starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. CH. 56. 9 p.m. Color...