Word: hotchpotch
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...recently farewelled with much fanfare from Test cricket, creaking about in the IPL. Apart from a hefty pay cheque, what could these matches mean to the non-Indian players? What Australian, South African or New Zealander grows up dreaming of representing Jaipur, Mohali or Kolkata? The franchises comprise a hotchpotch of current and retired players from various countries. On what will the players draw to find the will to try their hardest? Gratitude, perhaps, for being paid so well? It was only a few years ago that cricket learnt a hard lesson - players engaged in matches of which the result...
...Paris largely because so few candidates applied. There, the future communist leader read the works of Marx ("I didn't really understand them," he confessed) and, more usefully, a Stalinist political primer that urged "pitiless repression" of all enemies. Inspired in part by the French Revolution, Pol Pot's hotchpotch ideology was grounded in a warped version of Cambodian Buddhist theology and dreams of past national greatness. "If our people can make Angkor," he said, referring to the ancient Khmer empire, "they can make anything...
...training gifted young American chefs, like Michael Hutchings, the controlling partner in their Santa Barbara pilot venture. Some of the menu offerings are Roux inventions -- the cloudlike cheese souffle adrift in a cream and Gruyere sauce and the succulent beef tournedos in robust red-wine sauce with an earthy hotchpotch of mushrooms. Equally delectable are Hutchings' own creations -- tender abalone in a beurre- blanc sauce with caviar, and squab mellowed in a shallot-scented Cabernet sauce...
...Biennale is the longest-running festival-cum-survey in modern art. The first one was held in 1895, and the 41st opened this month in its three dozen national pavilions, set in the public gardens a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos...
...Most Beautiful Girl in the World; invigorating romps like Mountain Greenery and June Is Bustin' Out All Over. But the individual songs were only a part of his achievement. He and his lyricists, principally Lorenz Hart and Hammerstein, wove these numbers into increasingly coherent plots, transforming the traditional hotchpotch of musical comedy into unified musical theater. If Rodgers had written nothing else but Pal Joey and Oklahoma!, his penultimate collaboration with Hart and his first with Hammerstein, he would still have had an indelible influence on the genre...