Word: amalgamation
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...belongs to the lady. Parton is an irresistible screen presence, cute and cuddlesome and just a mite raunchy, a sort of Daisy Mae West. And when she sings, "I would let my gentle bosom/ Be the pillow for your head," she reminds us that her body is a statuesque amalgam of art and nature. All together now: two cheers for Dolly! -By Richard Corliss...
...their collective clientele that is approximately as accurate as a police composite ("The average customer will never understand that," said Kaplan, dismissing one particularly intricate Ferré blouse), the buyers run through the racks of clothes. If it can be said to exist at all, fashion sense is an amalgam of taste, whim, herd instinct and anxiety. Buying clothes for a store may not be a weighty responsibility, but it is a significant one. By determining what parts of a collection are bought, and in what quantity, the buyer affects not only the fortunes of a designer's company...
...guerrilla movement was not united until 1980, when its leaders met repeatedly in Havana at the invitation of Fidel Castro. In exchange for Cuban promises of increased military aid, the guerrillas formed three organizations: 1) the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), an amalgam of revolutionaries and representatives of alienated left-wing Salvadoran political parties, whose job is to plead the guerrilla case abroad; 2) the Unified Revolutionary Directorate, a 15-member war council of the top guerrilla commandantes; and 3) the F.M.L.N. itself, a coordinating body for the guerrilla groups...
...long way (100 million books sold worldwide) from his 1937 start. But he still puts in eight hours a day, five days a week at his desk, although the desk now overlooks the Pacific from the dream house he helped design. Geisel, whose nom de plume is an amalgam of his mother's maiden name and a self-bestowed doctorate, "which came from the fact that I saved my father $25,000 by dropping out of Oxford," next plans a nonsense book. He is also working on a Broadway play for adults, and this year Coleco, purveyors from...
...never sever/ Those whom love has bound forever" serves to remind the reader that Coward grew up in the Edwardian heyday. But such songs as I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and A Room with a View display the author's unique amalgam of anticipation and nostalgia ("Time may he heavy between,/ But what has been/ Is past forgetting...