It is a mishmash of compromises between political parties that agree on almost nothing.
It also acts as a fascinating link in Beck's career, somewhere between the mishmash postmodern rock of Odelay and the downbeat psychedelia of Mutations.
I was especially struck by his data on "mismatch" (which everyone I know calls mishmash): the extent to which there appears to be a misalignment between where the workers are and where the jobs are.
But Shields's book is not an alluring advertisement for the kind of writing (a mishmash of criticism and autobiography, "possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art") that he hopes will take the novel's place.
Americans, for their part, have embraced the highbrow-lowbrow mishmash of places like Las Vegas and Connecticut's Mohegan Sun, and now a little roulette between shopping at Prada and dinner at Thomas Keller's Bouchon seems like light entertainment on par with seeing Celine Dion.
And a major production number, surrounding the consummation of love in a forest bower between Edgar and the teenage Shelley Parker Kerry Butlerr) manages, in a riotously staged mishmash, to invoke Genesis (the Bible book, not the band), Greek myth, Dracula, Shakespeare and "The Lion King".
Each thematic section contains a mishmash of artists, styles, origins, eras and media, arranged to illuminate new relations between disparate works.
Rather like a woman's magazine today, it contains spiritual and practical advice, a mishmash of recipes, fashion and housekeeping tips, prayers, poems, morality tales, and everything in between for the girl who needs advice on wooing the opposite sex.
The distinction that Hodges makes between slash logic and IF logic serves to bring order to the mishmash of different formulations of IF first-order logic to be found in the literature.[16] Clauses (2) and (3) allow the degenerate case that the list of universal quantifiers is empty (n = 0).
