Word: eclecticism
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This basic recipe isn't new: in her profoundly important The Death and Life of Great American Cities 32 years ago, Jane Jacobs declared that urban vitality depends on an eclectic mix of small stores. But that doesn't mean developers and bureaucrats haven't continued to pursue monumental, street...
Don't let the modest talk fool you. Chua-Eoan is no shrinking violet. A native of the Philippines, he started working at TIME 10 years ago, answering phones and taking lunch orders as the Saturday secretary for the Nation section. Last week, for the first time, he was acting...
Three years ago, Sweet was just another unsung songwriter from the Nebraska heartland. His third album, Girlfriend, an eclectic melange of 1960s-style guitars and '90s-style attitude, had been passed over by most of the major labels. Then, the president of Zoo Entertainment, a venturesome Hollywood- based record company...
A military brat born on the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Michael did not discover classical music until age 15. He taught himself orchestration, studying Beethoven string quartets that he checked out from the library, and attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Walsh...
The harsh, discordant music grids, clanks, reverberates and buzzes in a manner reminiscent of an auto mechanic's garage--at least, one in which a chain-saw-wielding maniac runs amok. The only unifying theme to this eclectic collage of songs appears to be disharmony, distortion and above all a...