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Word: pasticcio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...like Michelangelos and flourish their tiny daggers at frantic women. He will take a tourist postcard view of the Grotta Azzurra in Capri, render it big, add a floating Chagall girl upside down, add a few written phrases in the manner of '20s Mird, and title the whole pasticcio thus: In Strange and Gloomy Waters If a White Dot Shines If a Child Jumps I Will Approach Her Flight, 1979. Chia's visions may not be very deep, but nobody could accuse him of having a defective swizzle stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wild Pets, Tame Pastiche | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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