Word: eclecticism
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Given that attitude, it is not surprising that the football program has fallen on hard times. Last year's team went 2-9, including a loss at Harvard, and wins over Dartmouth and Rutgers. This season, the Indians beat Dartmouth again, but have won only two other games--against Marshall...
The screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of...
B & B guests are an eclectic lot, including honeymooners and people celebrating anniversaries, an incognito celebrity or two and the occasional businessman. Says Judy Scott, manager of San Francisco's Washington Square Inn: "People who stay at B & Bs should be very independent and the sort who seek things...
Yet Gaddafi cannot be dismissed as a madman. "He comes across as cool, self-disciplined, shrewd," reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has interviewed the Libyan leader twice. "He radiates authority, confidence and self-control." Little is known about Gaddafi's private life except that he lives austerely...
One aspect has remained constant: after 233 world premieres, the A.D.F. is still the incubator of the eclectic, divisive energy of the art form, a center of experimentation. In its "Emerging Generation" series, as many avant-garde oddities as real innovations have appeared. Overall the record is commendable: the series...