After starting out on the then-pirate station Rinse, Sama DJed for 10 years on Kiss, and has become known for his encyclopedic knowledge and slick, rapid-fire technique on the decks.
But then the museum wants to be seen as encyclopedic and it is financed by what Texans call "old money," a fortune made before the first world war.
He sometimes literally fell asleep with his horn in his hands, and his knowledge of harmony, scales and modes was encyclopedic.
Meanwhile, all three of these books Ms McCoy's impartial assessment of Mr Parker's taste and influence, Mr Pinney's encyclopedic study and Mr Lukacs's guide to America's best wines should add new converts to the pleasures of the vine.
It is encyclopedic, long-winded in parts, and certainly requires patience.
The situation has been made worse by the curators' decision to display both collections, not in an encyclopedic chronological sequence, but by grouping the works of art in a series of exhibitions based on genres or subjects war, nudes, landscapes, still-life, and so on.For most of the spring, the grumbles were confined to critics and museum experts.
"The Gulag Archipelago" described the system, its tortures, rules and subculture, in relentless, gruesome, encyclopedic form.
Visitors arrive by boat and are encouraged to stay the night so they can see James Turrell's "Open Sky" installation at sunset.Second-tier museums that try to be encyclopedic on limited funds will have a hard time.
As Lindsey Hughes records in her formidably encyclopedic account of Peter's reign and the Petrine age, the emperor's ruthless innovation in matters social, military, economic and spiritual prompted warnings from religious dissidents that his new capital, St Petersburg, was a latter-day Sodom, ripe for destruction.
American cookbooks still tend towards the plain and encyclopedic, while British cookbooks have become increasingly conversational and evocative.
Few readers will have her encyclopedic knowledge of the works of Anna Akhmatova, Isaak Babel, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Herzen, Varlam Shalamov and Marina Tsvetaeva, to name but a few.
