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...Garth Drabinsky--the Canadian producer who wanted to turn his novel Ragtime into a musical--agreed with him about the 1981 movie version: they both disliked it. He was impressed too that Drabinsky seemed to have read the book closely and thought about it deeply. "He's an interesting amalgam of old-time entrepreneurial showman and genuine theater enthusiast," says Doctorow. "He has real taste. And he's not afraid of ideas...
...proceeded to bluff the sightseers into thinking they were courting unspeakable peril if they didn't make peace with the natives. Goodwill could be rendered quickly, Halmi decreed, if the group could scare up some cash. Within a few moments, the tourists turned over to the Masai the $150 amalgam of their pocket money...
With the arrest last week of two of the group's leaders and an escalating fbi presence around the Clark farm, Justus Township is no longer merely the headquarters for the Freemen's crooked amalgam of extremism and thievery. It's also the first major testing ground for federal law enforcement in the nervous aftermath of two disasters--the deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian inferno near Waco, Texas, in which more than 75 people were killed. In its handling of such standoffs, the Justice Department is at pains...
...Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What Carey's career may teach us is that paranoia about purity is the real enemy of black cultural expression, which at its best is characterized by the amalgamation of radically different elements." Dyson's worthy amalgam of essays proves that correct...
Many of Huggins' patients continue to swear by his treatments. Kenneth Lay, chairman of Enron Corp. in Houston, and his wife Linda had their amalgam fillings removed at the Huggins Center in 1991. Her chronic fatigue disappeared, as did an unexplained numbness he was experiencing. "I know what his critics say," comments Lay, "but I'm convinced that he does a lot of good for a lot of people...