They spread chaos and killing through a city famous for its culture, its intermingling of influences, its freedom of expression.
With its intermingling of personal confession and public significance, it is a real masterpiece of the first wave of the nonfiction novel, as good, in its more sober way, as Mailer's "Armies of the Night".
What made it path breaking was its intermingling of the names of Union and Confederate fallen heretofore denied wherever such a tribute had been built: Above or below the Mason-Dixon.
To an audience that hardly knew the borough, Frazier celebrated its intermingling of saltwater and freshwater, calling the island "one of the great natural places in the world — a blessed place".
This fascinating documentary uses the fall-rise-fall arc of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner to make some very pointed observations about our media culture and its intermingling of our politics.
In her memoirs, Viertel wrote self-effacingly that her house took on the reputation of a literary salon chiefly because of its informality, "and the haphazard intermingling of the famous with the 'not famous' and the 'not yet famous.'".
Like the platters of food they have brought, it is an intermingling of African and European elements that has blossomed into something all its own.
As this dystopian Presidential campaign enters its final phase, the intermingling of persistent terrorism and resilient Trumpism is painful to contemplate.
But if the intermingling of many different kinds of people is what gives Tel Aviv its pulse, it's the clash of old and new that still gives this city its surprising and slightly uneven gait.
