Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...checkered jacket and straw hat. Le Beau, complete with pseudo-French accent, wears white shoes and a monocle, a tie pin and boutonniere. the first lord is in a batik-jacketed tuxedo, and wears a black eye-patch out of a Hathaway shirt ad. And Touchstone has a patchwork jacket and pink shirt...
...soon use the bow and arrow as fight a war in landlocked Laos. The crooked fingerlike country boasts two roads on dry days, which become a morass of mud during the rainy season, beginning in May. Communications facilities are virtually nonexistent, and jungle trails suffice for railroads. The patchwork of mountains and jungles makes tanks about as useful there as they would be atop Mount Everest; it is guerrilla country, and the shrewd Communist Pathet Lao fighters play it that...
...their dehumanized experimentation and the latter hiss back at their opponents's "superfiuous," "reactionary" conservatism. If a composer finds no camp congenial, he must have great skill to select the elements from several schools, integrate them into a distinctly personal idiom, and still avoid the short-comings of a patchwork eclecticism...
...barrier not easily breached.* For non-Germans, again, even the playable but overlong first half creates theatrical problems not easily solved. No one word or phrase-dramatic poem, epic drama-adequately characterizes a work that, teeming with ideas and treading so much ground, cannot but be something of a patchwork...
Samuel Barber, 50, saw his Die Natali: Choral Preludes for Christmas given its first New York performance by the New York Philharmonic. The remarkably successful piece is essentially a patchwork of familiar Christmas carols artfully embedded in unfamiliar harmonies-0 Come, O Come, Emmanuel, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Silent Night, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen. The mood for the most part is reflective, the tone intensely lyrical, as most of Barber's best music is. The only truly shocking section of the piece is also one of the most effective: the brasses suddenly explode into a jazzy...