Word: mishmash
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...High-speed, $15 million ocean ships lie idle for days in port while they are loaded by means of archaic slings. No less an authority than Najeeb Halaby, former head of the Federal Aviation Agency, insists that the U.S. really has no system of transportation at all, only a mishmash of "some of the best components anywhere...
...this mishmash into something resembling a shape is the aim of the new Department of Transportation, created last month, 30 years after Congress was first urged to act. In pleading for the new department, President Johnson made a strong indictment of transportation in the U.S. today, deploring "programs and policies which impede private initiative and dull incentives for innovations." Despite the indictment, Congress did not see fit to give the new department the powers it needs. With 95,000 employees and a $6.2 billion-a-year-budget, DOT (as it seems destined to be called) starts life as the fourth...
...through the ensuing decades, of all the boys except two brothers whose determination to outlast each other provides the plot for the next two hours. The absurdity and delicious macabre blend of this premise might have made a first-rate English film. What results, however, is a superficial humorless mishmash of plotting orphan descendants, ridiculous Victorian satire, and cliche mixups...
...note that nonlawyer Dacey, uncertified, self-designated paragon, has put together a home-remedy lawbook. I hope this will not inspire some operating-room orderly to put together a hodgepodge of medical mishmash on how to avoid hospital and surgery fees by home removal of appendix, tonsils and other anatomical appendages...
Richard Mathews makes a valiant attempt at the clown Feste, but it is folly to cast this role with anyone who is not also a singer, since he has several solo songs. Conrad Susa's music is a mishmash of styles. "O mistress mine," accompanied by bells, suffered from Mathews' inability to sing on pitch. At the opening performance he did better with "Come away, death," a quite lovely piece accompanied by two oboes and a harp. He is allowed to end the show as Shakespeare wrote it, singing "When that I was" all alone on stage. The lights...