It's hard to find a more apt description of a performer: she merges with the environment, the atmosphere, as she travels through it, becoming and unbecoming herself.
According to popular belief, she miraculously merged with the image of Ranchorji, but whether she actually died that night or slipped away to spend the rest of her years wandering in disguise is not known.
The revellers erupt into the street, and Shin, dancing in a child's inflatable pool, ducks underwater and comes up without the wig or the face paint — she has merged with Skippy (I think).
She has merged with that culture's heroic attempt to open love's third eye when not long ago frozen tundra ruled the sun in the form of Pol Pot, Hitler's offspring.
In 2015, Bresch caused another firestorm when she merged Mylan with a company in the Netherlands.
And this year, she did a very un-Rochester thing -- she merged CVC with a company from Long Island, Veeco.
"We're talking some serious dollar signs here," said Danielle Charboneau, 29, who in 2010 started Juice Maids, a delivery service in Los Angeles that she merged early this year with Juice Served Here, a forthcoming chain of shops.
She merged her body with that of the dying Linda Danvers, became an angel with fiery wings, was separated from Danvers, and battled an assortment of supernatural foes in the relaunched Supergirl (1996 2003) comic.
In 1980 she merged her practice with that of her husband, architect Paul Prejza.
Calling herself a researcher rather than an artist, she merged her art with the practice of psychotherapy.
Introduced to the idea by her then-husband who she has since divorced, she merged her startup with a nonfunctioning nickel-mining company called InterMet Resources and became the first Silicon Valley CEO to go public Down Under.
