Word: amalgamation
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...don’t need an invitation. You will find these outcast high-schoolers’ inverse: The college kids who were the ones throwing the invitation-only parties in high school and are now too cool for lowly open-house parties. You will find, in short, an amalgam of local youth whose variety is only surpassed by its vibrancy...
...probably pulled for obvious reasons. Yet there is hardly a low moment on the 18-song disc, which includes the obligatory two “previously unreleased” songs: “Cut Here,” which sounds slightly tossed-off, coming across as an amalgam of “Let’s Go To Bed” and “Why Can’t I Be You,” full of chiming guitars and keyboard samples that sound like they want to be horn sections. But this is supposed to be a retrospective...
...Thompson hasn't always been good, however, this time around he's been lucky. The anthrax scare has been a decidedly small one, with only eight infections so far and all but one caught in time. And while HHS, an amalgam of a dozen divisions that deals with everything from aging to drugs, has never been the smoothest-running machine in Washington, so far it has effectively mobilized its resources and overseen the testing of thousands and the treatment of all who have needed it. The small scale has also let Thompson maintain that we have enough antibiotics to handle...
...most intelligent and profound reactions thus far, actors from the American Repertory Theatre, the ART Institute and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club allowed cooler heads to prevail in a performance of Aftermath, an amalgam of poetry, skits, scenes and songs designed to honor the victims and to provide a chance for reflection...
...Falun Gong is an amalgam of religions and exercises that Chinese have known for centuries. Practitioners meditate during a series of ritualized motions that Li Hongzhi invented. The central tenet is that Li himself, either personally or through his books and videotapes, inserts the Falun icon, a swastika-like Buddhist emblem surrounded by yin-yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle...