High Street North in East Ham is a dizzying melange of South Asian fabrics, Polish stores, Africans clustering outside telecoms shops and room-for-rent notices in Tamil.Given the low levels of income and high levels of churn, it is no surprise that housing is a particular problem in Newham.
This melange has predictably produced an orgy of conspiracy theories, some of which are probably smears and disinformation, circulated by people who have taken Mr Litvinenko's demise as a grand opportunity to discredit their enemies.The initial, rushed assumption among many in London was that the Kremlin did it or if not the Kremlin directly, the FSB; or if not them, then former KGB/FSB men.
The market is a microcosm of the new political constituency in which it stands: a melange of brown faces and white, rich and poor, squeezed into a small space.
But in their second opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer" (1991), Mr Sellars seemed to take a worrying precedence, creating a hyperactive melange which actually obscured the narrative and swamped the music.
India's outgoing parliament, the shortest-lived in its history, was a melange of nearly 40 parties plus independents, with the largest party having just a third of the seats.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S fairy-tale musical melange "Into the Woods" features the only rhyme-less song in all his works: "I Guess This Is Goodbye", a short ode to a cow, sung by Jack, of Beanstalk fame.
Travel farther north and you pass the container ports of Shenzhen, behind which new skyscrapers tower over a sprawling melange of housing and factories.
Lo and behold, the appropriate peaks appear in the oxygen record exactly as predicted every 123,000 years, and also every 75,000 years (a peak that does not get sucked into the 100,000-year melange).The 107,000-year peak is also explained.
Lombardy in Italy specializes in mostarda di frutta, a melange of fruits preserved in a sweet syrup, sharp with mustard.
The myriad items of information about the anatomy, diet, habitat, modes of copulation, and reproductive systems of mammals, reptiles, fish, and insects are a melange of minute investigation and vestiges of superstition.
