Rather than asking how a work that draws on sound experiences as various as an avalanche and an icebreaker, and uses a symbolic plainchant, can possibly be "abstract," we may return to Mr. Small's view that "music is the vibrational essence of the world".
He wrote a monthly review-essay for The Atlantic and, as a carte-blanche columnist at Vanity Fair, filed essays on topics as various as getting a Brazilian bikini wax and the experience of being waterboarded, a volunteer assignment that he called "very much more frightening though less painful than the bikini wax".
Oz The Great And Powerful is not merely a gargantuan, complex, mega-budget Disney production in 3D, it dares to take on one of the most beloved movies of all time, The Wizard Of Oz, rated by Raimi, alongside film-makers as various as John Waters and John Carpenter, as a bedrock formative cultural experience.
In a number of recent interviews with consumers, it became clear that, for reasons as various as the weak economy, a revised moral climate and a guilt hangover following years of glut, the closet has become the hottest store in town.
Collectors are as various as rocks, said Thomas Raber, a salesman at Wendel Minerals, dealers based in southern Germany.
The dances, performed by her MoCotroupe, are set to music as various as the Macedonian mambo, a score by Azerbaijiani composers and Mozart's "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman" (K. 265).
She treated subjects as various as Greta Garbo, explored through a fictional double in "First Nights" (1993), and the conflicted love of twin sisters for each other in "The Golden Rope" (1996).
It's egg all over face.' Explanations for Airey's decision are as various as the storylines in an episode of Coronation Street.
Within five years she made 15 films, as various as Demetrius and the Gladiators, a baseball movie The Kid from Left Field and Gorilla at Large (1954).
It also strikes me as defiantly internationalist in tone and open to experiments with form, as proved by work as various as Stephen Emmott's Ten Billion, a dramatised lecture on population explosion, or Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone, with its riveting mixture of the domestic and the apocalyptic.
