Word: meshing
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...this nightmare there remains a glimmer of hope in the freedom songs of the political prisoners, "a single powerful sound rolling and thundering, shaking the very foundations of the prison walls." It is not a practical agenda but only a vision of a possible future. Technically, it does not mesh well with the generally hopeless tone. But emotionally, it is the underlying credo of the entire novel: a new world will be--must be--born someday in South Africa...
...that song, Craw sings, "My darker side, my Huxton Creeper side, wants to be set free." One wonders, however, if it isn't Craw's softer side that wants to be set free. The songs he composes by himself have a tendency towards melodic balladry that doesn't mesh with the rest of the Huxtons' musical vision...
Most everybody senses that these two truths don't quite mesh and that there must be something more to nukes than deterrence...
...Abdallah apparently has many friends in low places. Minutes after he was driven under heavy guard away from Paris police headquarters to the city's Sante prison, four other suspected terrorists were brought in. They arrived separately, at 15-minute intervals, crouched inside identical blue police vans with wire-mesh windows and police-car escorts. The four are reportedly acquainted with Abdallah, and their group is believed to have supplied him with weapons...
...yard is divided into small rectangles about the size of the cells, and prisoners are allowed to exercise only with cellmates. Each yard is seven steps long, three steps wide. There is a concrete floor and rough concrete walls four meters ((12 ft.)) high, covered with wire mesh. It is like being at the bottom of a well. Prisoners call it 'seeing the sky through a screen.' " The walls were so high that the sun was never visible: "We don't see the sun for years, but it can rain...