Word: melds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banners denouncing the Sandinista regime. Said one: IN NICARAGUA RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION EXISTS! Another, referring to harassment of early Christians in Rome, read: NO CATACOMBS IN NICARAGUA! Though Nicaragua's Catholic leaders supported the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, moderate clerics have now grown wary of Sandinista-supported efforts to meld Christianity with Marxist ideology...
Meanwhile, the ongoing clashes between the Shonas and the Ndebeles have grown worse, especially within the new national army, which tried to meld both ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas into its ranks. Some 1,200 of Nkomo's onetime rebels have deserted the armed forces, returning to Matabeleland, homeland of the Ndebeles. The region has turned into an African version of the wild West, with former ZIPRA guerrillas roaming the countryside in small bands, murdering or kidnaping civilians, ripping up rail and power lines and robbing scores of people...
...gentle persuasion effectively practiced by her predecessor, Donald Wright, the bright, hard-working Bird offered aloofness and abrasion. Her manner soon cost her the services of Ralph Kleps, the able administrator of the state's judiciary. Another casualty was collegiality, the glue that enables seven independent thinkers to meld their views into cohesive decisions. Then in 1979, the court endured the public debacle of a state investigation. The charge: that four controversial decisions had been delayed until after an election in which four justices were up for voter approval. The claim was never proved, but on TV, the justices...
...with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped by the same kind of machine that is used to shoot dog food into cans (it could be nicknamed the Alpo Volcano). The Land (sponsor: Kraft) manages to meld a boat tour, environmental subjects (topsoil loss, space-grown plants) and musical cutups by such Audio-Animatronic vegetable performers as the Colander Combo and the Kitchen Krackpots led by a human being, Bonnie Appetit...
...nearest approach to Walken's Hamlet in my experience is the snarling and unpoetic one that the overtouted Nicol Williamson came over from England to inflict on us in 1969. For a reminder of how a superb actor can capture 100 facets of Hamlet's nature and meld them into one believable characterization, turn not to the dreadful Olivier film version but to Derek Jacobi's 1980 portrayal for BBC television (which will doubtless be shown here again soon...