Word: amalgamating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...details, he is adamant on some basic principles. Several are echoed by the most thorough alternative plans, including one proposed last week by 22 Republican Senators and nearly identical bills likely to be introduced this week by two Democrats, Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Some amalgam of these proposals could become the principal bipartisan alternative to Clinton's plan...
These funny columns, titled Tales of the City, soon captivated San Francisco and eventually led to a series of six books. So titillating was his amalgam of fiction and reality that a number of locals at first suspected that Armistead Maupin must be the pseudonym of some social insider (thus part of the show's title, "is a man I dreamt up," is an anagram...
...actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
...real villain is the mercury that makes up about 50% of dental amalgam. In a study reported in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, monkeys with mercury fillings showed a jump in drug-resistant bacteria from 9% to 70%; when the fillings were removed, resistance dropped to 12%. It seems the genes that protect bacteria from mercury lie close to those that protect against antibiotics, so bugs that survive one tend to survive the other...
Bookends succeeds only when it maintains its comic focus. As a serious exploration of relationships or paranoia it is on less reliable footing. With judicious cutting to emphasize its strong points, Bookends would be a solid comic work rather than a mismatched amalgam of ruminations and jokes...