Word: mosaicism
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...BLUE NILE: HATS (A&M). A trio of ethereally rocking Scotsmen, the Blue Nile weaves a sound mosaic that is part sci-fi parable and part Arcadian fantasy. Gentle, uninsistent and insinuating, a single listen to The Downtown Lights could convert anyone this side of an Aerosmith fan to full-fledged Nile fever...
LEGACIES: A CHINESE MOSAIC by Bette Bao Lord; Knopf; 272 pages...
...Shanghai-born novelist Bette Bao Lord. Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, she began recording their uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with recollections drawn from her own Chinese roots. The result is a vivid and startling mosaic of the political struggles that foreshadowed the Tiananmen Square uprising...
...Diaspora is not the only campus outlet for minority voices and concerns. It joins the ranks of literary magazines like Yisei and East Wind, directed towards Asian-American audiences, and the Jewish magazine Mosaic. These, like Diaspora, attempt to highlight subjects pertaining to specific cultural groups in an atmosphere often dominated by more mainstream magazines...
...Mosaic Editor Michael D. Goldhaber '90, explained that the resurrection of the Jewish magazine after its demise in 1973 coincides with "a resurgence of interest in Jewish identity. It's a way of building community that was overlooked in the late 70 s, early 80 s," Goldhaber said...