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A harmless crevice in your silver-mercury amalgam filling looks like Hell's Canyon.
This fresh take on the region should disabuse anyone who still imagines the South as a Gothic amalgam of Deliverance , Gone With the Wind , and Walker Evans photos of hollow-eyed sharecroppers.
The basic template seems to be an amalgam of The Wizard of Oz and Happy Days : The relationship between Luke (Mark Hamill) and Han (Harrison Ford) is just the relationship between Richie and the Fonz; the Wookiee is cloned directly from the Cowardly Lion; and the scene in which C-3PO is dismembered by the Sand People is completely appropriated from the scene in which the Scarecrow is dismembered by flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz . It is true that The Wizard is a story implanted deep in the memory banks of the viewing public--but it is a stretch to call Star Wars ' appeal atavistic.
He has even been known to do this in French: garde-nez nose-protector is a logical amalgam of garder to guard and pince-nez: An extravagant garde-nez of gold filigree clung to the ridge of his nose.
Only the Dutch produce this alcoholic drink, a kind of amalgam of English gin and German schnaps.