Word: eclecticism
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"Interesting ideas are not confined to politics and poetry, so I would like to provide an eclectic and interesting forum for people to exchange all kinds of ideas," Kwiram said.
The second category, less snappy but still humorous after several readings, is comprised of more lengthy parodies of an author's tone or manner. The writers have made some eclectic choices, and those readers unfamiliar with Tama Janowitz's works will be confused by the sequel to Gone With the...
As chairman of Occidental -- an ailing oil company he took over in 1957 and turned into a going concern throughout the 1960s and '70s -- Hammer circulated tirelessly between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the corporate jet, arranging "cultural exchanges" that were more show than tell. Somehow one could...
SIGMAR POLKE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first major North American survey of a restlessly eclectic German artist, 49, whose work ranges from Pop-related imagery through psychedelic fantasy. Polke's recent "alchemical" works incorporate materials (silver oxide, sealing wax, even rat poison) that change color and texture...
Too many magazines are like microwave cheeseburgers: quick, convenient and bland. Yet one quirky exception has been eminently successful at putting spice in the American reading diet: the Utne Reader, an alternative Reader's Digest stuffed with provocative articles gleaned mostly from the country's left- < leaning and fringe press...