Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What is most fascinating about Helms is the unique amalgam of the old and the new in American politics that he represents. His personal style, his elaborate politeness and his reactionary ideals are out of an earlier era of Southern politics. Yet his political apparatus is the very essence of the new, nonparty politics of high technology...
Mitterrand's legislative victory was also a vindication of his long-range political strategy. After winning the presidency last month with a surprise victory over Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the center-right incumbent, Mitterrand disbanded the National Assembly, which had been controlled by Giscard's coalition, an amalgam of the Gaullist and centrist forces that had run the government for 23 years. In the campaign to elect a new Assembly, Mitterrand was threatened from two directions. If the right regained control of the chamber, France could face a constitutional crisis; the institutions of the Fifth Republic are not designed...
...ghoulishly riveting compilation of public performances (on TV, in movies and concerts) and home movies shows, Presley did it every which way but his. He began as an original-a white man who sang like an angry black and moved like a bad woman-and ended as a bloated amalgam of Liberace and Judy Garland. It was the standard show-biz tragedy, which Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo document in delicious detail. Today Elvis remains a thriving industry, like Disney; this film is both a comment on that industry and (through the authorization of Presley's mentor, Colonel...
Once last week's merger receives the expected approval from Washington and goes into effect, American Express is likely to begin selling new money services quickly. Said Weill: "You can let your imagination run about what we're going to be doing." The amalgam's first offering is likely to be a cash management account based on Shearson's money-market funds and similar to one created by Merrill Lynch in 1977. Under that program, customers with at least $20,000 in securities or cash in an account can put that cash into money-market funds...
...series of porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses and tracks McGee to his opulent houseboat, the Busted Flush. The result is one of MacDonald's King Kong vs. Godzilla confrontations that deliver a soul-satisfying amalgam of mayhem and justice...