Word: amalgamation
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...imperatives; and the complex plot picks up narrative steam. Again, you've seen it all before - last summer, when the hero was a panda. Chandni Chowk thus has the feel of one of many Indian glosses on American films, not of something fresh and foreign. For a really thrilling amalgam of Bollywood and Hong Kong, I'm still waiting...
...Across the table, Christian L. Garland ’10, the Dems’ secretary, is helping Membership Chair Marianne Eagan ’10 call students to ask them to come on the club’s weekend campaign trip. Garland is the author of the amalgam of club announcements and biting satire known as the “Harvard College Democrats Weekly Bulletin.” Peppered with sentences like “BRING UR CELL PHONEZ AND UR LAPTOPS, ’cause we gon’ hit up Collaradda” and phrases like...
...world that is not specific to either the narrative or the abstract.” Boston Ballet’s “Night of Stars” on Friday night clearly aimed to make good on this dream, and the resulting evening was a somewhat disproportionate amalgam with occasional bursts of fireworks.The program opener was Jorma Elo’s “In on Blue,” a sort of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” set in water, evoking a fairy underworld and land of mer-people. Elo, a Finnish choreographer...
...heart a ripping yarn with much buckling of swashes, and musical numbers, too. The Other, a hit at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where Chahine received a 50th Anniversary life-achievement award) and at the Toronto and New York fests, is a delirious blast - a politico-romantic amalgam of melodrama and music, at a pace and pitch that Bollywood directors wouldn't dare dream...
...captures the feeling of embracing the past, with all its hurt and controversy, and setting out on a new course. "I'll ride the wave/ Where it takes me," Vedder sings, imagining he is singing to his lost father, dreaming that he is uniquely himself but still somehow an amalgam of his father and his past. "I'll hold the pain/ Release me." It's a healthy attitude in a music genre ruled by high school passions. If he keeps it, the dropout who became a rock star may be ready for the head of the class...