Word: mishmash
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...settings, fashioned by Douglas Schmidt, and skilfully lit by Marc Weiss, are decidedly modern or futuristic. And electronic incidental music and odd sound effects have been devised by Pril Smiley. One might surmise that the result would be a mishmash. But the idea of putting 11th-century people dressed in 17th-century garb in 20th-century environments is perfectly viable. One of the play's major themes is the wrenching of things out of their accustomed habitats, the appearance of people in "borrowed robes," the distortion of time. And the text is full of references to strange sounds ("every noise...
...been a terrible extension," admits Georges Palthey, a U.N. official since 1945 and the assistant director-general of the Geneva branch. "The general plan was to bring, as much as possible, services of a social and economic character to Geneva. That was the plan, but the implementation has been mishmash. We can say now that the U.N. in Geneva is dealing with all the possible problems on the planet, from the sea bed to space...
Sadly, Ernest Lehman's mishmash movie of Portnoy's Complaint, which opened June 27 in Boston, gives offense...
...column is a mishmash with an uneven history. After Pearson's death in 1969, the heir suffered dry periods in which his output was only soso. Not even Jack Anderson can find an interesting piece of skulduggery every day. So he relates, in tones of breathless outrage, such gossip as a 1970 bit about the then mayor of Tucson, James Corbett Jr., allegedly barging uninvited into a young woman's Washington hotel room and biting her knee (Corbett lost the subsequent election). Anderson also polices the drinking habits of Capitol Hill (he is an abstemious Mormon) and waxes...
...regard to the issue of the modes of opposition or criticism acceptable in a university community, the majority editorial is veritable mishmash. First, the majority editorial is wrong in charging that the signers of the public Faculty statement were seeking "to eliminate acceptable forms of opposition to Herrnstein's though." The Faculty statement was crystal clear in its concern with unacceptable forms of opposition in a university community, which included false and offensive placards and leaflets (as David Landau's article on Dec. 7th fully demonstrated), threats to disrupt classes, and picketing. As a signer of the Faculty statement...