Word: eclecticism
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Steve Earle/"Transcendental Blues" Speaking of Dukes, this rambunctious tunesmith's latest offering finds him striking a happy truce between his various, sometimes adversarial personae. Typically, Earle's affect has alternated between Good Steve and Bad Steve: On traditional and more introspective material, he tends toward the former, but when...
As it does every three years, the INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION has just announced its latest roster of official astronomical names, and as usual, the list is highly eclectic. It's not surprising that CARL SAGAN was honored with a 50-mile-wide crater on Mars. And the names Prospero, Setebos...
In 1991 this hip-hop trio released an album entitled De La Soul Is Dead; its bright new CD proves that the announcement was premature. Art Official Intelligence has an impressively eclectic lineup of guests, including Busta Rhymes, Chaka Khan and members of the Beastie Boys (Mike D and Ad...
The budget must be less than the price of a jumbo popcorn bag at the plex. The format is simple: just a fast-talking man (host Ed Grant) and his film clips. But this celebration of "everything from high art to low trash and back again" is the most eclectic...
The Protests, In Sum Quoth the Times: "Devotees of lively political protest, a fading art in recent decades, had something to cheer for and against today as an eclectic, ragtag assortment of causes snaked and howled through the heart of this city, giving pause to Republican conventioneers intent on decorum...