Word: potpourri
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...usual, they were dillies, a superbly executed potpourri inspired by Bali's antic muse. There were subtle pencil drawings of nudes, erotic washes produced by the inky wiggling of a live baby octopus, fiery battle scenes with paint laid on thick enough to thrill a pastry chef. Of course, there was also his super-surrealism, typically in GALACIDALACIDEOXYRIB ONUCLEICACID (Homage to Crick and Watson), a title so long that it resorts to a parenthetical remark. In a slick equation of Botticelli and biochemistry, Dali portrays a translucent God lifting the dead Christ into heaven, superimposed on the molecular structure...
...Editors. What really accounts for the giveaway's new appetite for news is its hungry reader. Too many metropolitan dailies, striving to be all things to all readers, have turned into a ready-mixed potpourri of syndicated columns, global think pieces, comic strips, canned features and coleslaw recipes. Local news continually comes in last. Without exception, the giveaway newspaper lavishes all its news attention on the local scene, and leaps with alacrity to publish home-town names...
...many businessmen used to working within well-defined industry lines, all this seems more like a potpourri than a company. Almost every time that Litton announces a new product or acquisition-which is almost every week-there is a new flurry of predictions that at last the fast-stepping Texan has gone too far. If Tex Thornton's business philosophy often confuses his critics, it is perhaps because it is so breathtakingly broad and ambitious. He is interested in change, and pursues it wherever he can. Litton's present and future are tied together by a commitment...
Silent Bankers. Most Swiss bankers were characteristically mum about the National-Zeitung's story, but showed no eagerness to refute it. In Madrid. Ramfis Trujillo called the story a "slanderous potpourri of half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies'' planted by a former secretary of his playboy brother Rhadames. He couldn't help feeling sorry for himself, in all his luxurious exile: "My entire life was marred and unhappy because I was the heir of Rafael Trujillo...
...argued, finally, that the cause of education is not really served by dishing up a potpourri which gives each individual a common and superficial core of knowledge. All Harvard really teaches anyone is to think--a goal that can be achieved through specialization as well as through general education...