Word: mishmash
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...whole point of Repo Man, a movie which unabashedly aims to wallow in its own neurotic. Road Warrior or Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly in this offbeat satire of suburban...
Gullette, forced to create the difficult illusion that he and taped actor O'Neill are the same person, echoes the young man's mannerisms with fairly convincing results. Both of them speak in one of Beckett's crazy derived dialects, a mishmash of cliches and rhetorical fragments, the refuse of a language long cut off from creative input. Both speak despairingly of (literally) endless struggles to break the same habits, particularly a fierce predilection for eating bananas; Gullette eats two at the performance's start, in a display that moved one audience member to bubble enthusiastically to him at intermission...
...federal money to buy educational materials that present an overly progressive view of "the status role of men and women" and permit any schools receiving federal cash to "limit or prohibit the intermingling of the sexes in any sport or other school-related activity." Even Jepsen recognizes that his mishmash has no chance of passing Congress intact, so he proposes to put up seven sections for individual votes. One would, in effect, legalize prayer in public schools. The other six would provide tax incentives for people to adopt children and care for the handicapped and elderly dependents at home-which...
...have too many flavors, then they mask each other and you end with a mishmash. But there was that very simple recipe that we did on television. You spoon a little bourbon whisky over vanilla ice cream and sprinkle on some finely powdered instant coffee. That makes a delicious dessert...
...dandy pop tune, Elvis blithely propositioning a poor woman who's "under the table with a chemical snake." (People think they're tough in this world, but they're jellybeans.) "Pretty Words" ("don't mean much anymore/I don't mean to be mean much anymore") is a muddled mishmash of images. Elvis knocked senseless by machines, people weaving and stumbling around that nightclub, discovering later that the outside world is just as brutal and disorderly, with "millions murdered for a kiss-me-quick." (Think of "The Human Touch," which at least assumed there was such a thing, or that...