Word: fancifulism
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Opener “Song Meat” is just that: Drucker’s alchemical meta-composition of fragile lyrical fragments “which could never be songs.” Sidling into his fanciful form through a soundscape of Pole-like dub and fuzzed out guitar lines...
More so than most Vegas showmen, casino mogul Steve Wynn, 62, has helped create the postmodern face of Sin City, replacing plain-vanilla gambling with entertainment destinations like the elegant Bellagio, the luxurious Mirage and the fanciful Treasure Island. So it's a noteworthy change of tone that this pioneer...
On the bicentennial of his re-election as President, Jefferson still intrigues Americans for another reason: his tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a...
Jefferson passed down his ideas instead, many of them still fresh and controversial (the complete separation of church and state, the suspicion that money would conspire with power to establish a sinister homegrown aristocracy), a few of them outlandish and fanciful (his suggestion that the Constitution be revisited every 19...
Atwood invents hybrid creatures like pigoons, the disastrous fusing of pig and human DNA, genetic engineering companies with names like HelthWyzer and a computer game called Kwiktime Osama. Although the names are fanciful, many of the details are based on real science, which is what makes Atwood’s...