On Mr. Burke's menu in the late 1980s were startling "American" conflations like cinnamon-smoked quail with apple ravioli, pecan-black-pepper consommé and quail eggs; and sea bream with asparagus saffron broth garnished with lotus chips.
The menu also features local conflations like scalawag (grilled filet mignon with bourbon brown sauce and oysters), green Tabasco chicken, and barbecue sandwiches perfect to feed a couple, or more, on the plane home.
I would like to propose a conflation of the word "treble" and the letter "W" to form the term "trouble-you". It rolls nicely off the tongue and, in many cases, aptly describes the experience of navigating the Web.
Which is not untrue, but seems like a missed opportunity to shed some light on why you might be considering Botox at all – like the conflation of a woman's worth with her appearance.
The song feels like a conflation of a lot of what's happening in the US indie music sphere at the moment: the songcraft meets experimentalism of Animal Collective, Atlas Sound and Grizzly Bear; acid-drenched psychedelia; the general vogue for hazy nostalgic pop; 70s AM radio gone lo-fi; the ambient electro feel of the "chillwave" set.
Spying on Abdul-Alim was apparently seen as legit by the bureau simply because of his loose associations with people deemed "Islamic extremists," which seems like a conflation of the radical black Muslim tradition associated with Malcolm X with the rather distinct ideology of al Qaeda.
Many Jews and people will question the conflation of a tragedy and crime like the Holocaust with a flag committing another ethnic cleansing.
At the very least, going forward, let's hope that the conflation of democracy and voting is like a fairy-tale villain: if we stop believing it exists, it'll go away.
The result is a visual conflation, as the techniques used by artists like Catlin or Albert Bierstadt to depict sublime mountains and valleys become the means for depicting Monkman's contemporary scenes.
