Word: eclecticism
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These are the wrong questions. There was no conspiracy, no plan to be arrested and nothing out of line about studying a social movement first-hand. As for the IOP, it funds an eclectic range of options. During my semester at the IOP, the Institute was subsidizing a former Republican...
The well-meaning gesture frays the delicate web of racial, economic and family relations. Caroline wrestles with whether to take the money; Noah goads her with ever larger amounts. Meanwhile, we glimpse Caroline's home life (she's a single mother with four kids) and Noah's extended family, including...
Moore, like Stewart, is out to class herself up a bit. She has gracefully apologized for the sonic misadventures of her teen-pop years, and on Coverage, she tries to position herself for the future with versions of Carly Simon's Anticipation, Carole King's I Feel the Earth Move...
Blame Tony Bennett. Blame his son, actually. It was Danny Bennett who resuscitated his father's career by parading old Tone down the red carpet at every mid-'90s hipster event that attracted a camera. The incongruity of Tony Bennett next to k.d. lang and the Red Hot Chili Peppers...
At Harvard, Nkosi maintains eclectic interests such as gumboots dancing, a form of South African dancing similar to African-American step dancing. She decorates her room with colorful shoulder bags and scarves to combat what she calls the “drab and bleak” colors of Cambridge. She...