Word: mishmashes
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...departments already equipped to run them. A companion bill offers industry a 7% tax credit for initiating job-creating training programs. These measures, claim its cosponsors, Representatives Charles Goodell of New York and Minnesota's Quie, would "completely restructure the popgun war on poverty" and replace "the mangled mishmash of overlapping, conflicting and wasteful programs" with more effective ones-all at a saving of $200 million...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
...alternative to these proposals, Celler argued, would be "a veritable mishmash, a hodgepodge. I do not think you want that." He was right. The House accepted the bill by a voice vote and sent Manny Celler's nugget to the Senate, where passage looks as good as gold...
...have, in sum, a production that is far from continuously exciting. Yet producer Reed might have had much worse luck. For all its shortcomings, the show is a more satisfying venture than the miserable mishmash that Burton and Gielgud are currently mixed up in on Broadway; and Sawyer is now an actor who deserves careful watching...
Costigan must have known he was dealing in cartoon-like commonplaces; his failure is to establish a point of view. The audience is aware that he is being satirical when he spoofs Emil's supposed masculinity, but it isn't sure how seriously to take the psychological mishmash. If Costigan is truly concerned with dreams and guilt feelings, he doesn't say very much, badly. And if the whole play is intended as a boff of modern theater, Costigan fluffs the job by giving the production an overly sober tone...