Whereas Mr. Wolfe's earlier works of reportage reveled in the multifarious reality of America, his essays in recent years -- beginning with "The Painted Word" (1975) and "From Bauhaus to Our House" (1981) -- have grown more and more dogmatic, imposing on the reader a single and decidedly subjective way of looking at the world.
Shabaka Hutchings] Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Friday 16 November Jazz drummers big enough to have lost count of the stars they've worked for, and to have held down a trio job with Keith Jarrett for nearly 30 years, could be expected to take the multifarious rhythms of the world in their stride.
Multifarious objects of this world including living and conscious beings are produced out of the combination of material elements.
There have been a few innovators whom the cognoscenti could spot from the proverbial "handful of notes" (Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins might top the list), but the task gets tougher when it comes to the thousands of talented yet less influential locals from the multifarious jazz scenes of the world.
She fines things down precisely in order to show readers how even the simplest world is fractured and multifarious.
We find ourselves, in other words, in a late-flowering offshoot of one of the great modernist ambitions, which reached full bloom in "Ulysses": the urge to try out every conceivable style, not as a show of skill but in a bid to grasp a world so rich and multifarious that it threatens, or rejoices, to elude our clutches.
But in the days before dumbing down and cultural studies no one reviewed Enid Blyton or Georgette Heyer -- as they do not now review the great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody as opposed to derivative manipulation of past motifs, who deals with death with startling originality.
It reminds us that the art world of that time was a multifarious scene shaped by artists beyond Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
What some call "the great moderation" has been a boon to financial markets around the world, particularly those trading in the multifarious debt instruments concocted in the laboratories of Wall Street and the City of London.
However, cultivated rice, which feeds more than half of the world's population, is often threatened by multifarious environmental factors including drought, salinity, cold and other factors.
