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Despite its well-played humor, A Leap of Faith fails to make any impact. It doesn't leave you tingly, or touched or ecstatic, or depressed. It just begins and ends. The interim is a potpourri of humor and jumbled meanings which carry hardly any emotional import...
...similarly eclectic spirit enlivens A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert, a recording of a 1991 performance that featured Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Wynton Marsalis and Andre Previn conducting the Orchestra of St. < Luke's. This potpourri of holiday goodies makes a determined effort to be culturally inclusive: one of its many delights is the calypso Christmas tune Mary's Little Boy Chile...
Until now, Frank Norris' 1899 novel was best known as the inspiration for Erich von Stroheim's 1924 silent epic Greed. Bolcom has given the material a brash, distinctive voice. His score evokes turn-of-the-century America in a slick, seamless potpourri of retro modernism, long, loose-limbed melodies and irresistible rhythmic invention...
Volcano Lover: A Romance, Sontag's first book in 25 years, focuses on Sir William Hamilton (Sontag calls him the Cavaliere throughout the book). Cavaliere is the British ambassador to Naples, a rabid collector of potpourri and vulcanist who married his first wife Catherine for money. After Catherine's death, the Cavaliere falls in love with Emma; through a strange twist, however, she turns around and finds love in a young British admiral...
...strange way to teach, but then this is a strange school. Imagine a place where children learn math by holding jobs, paying taxes and owning * businesses that sell everything from pompom pencils to potpourri pillows. A place where students study logic and law by taking their peers to court and fining them in the school's own currency. A place where kids come to understand politics by drawing up their own constitution, drafting laws and deciding which days of the week baseball caps may be worn to class. Imagine, in short, a school where civics is not just a course...