Pay special attention to the delightful London collective Old Apparatus, whose fantastic collection "Compendium" was largely ignored this year for reasons I cannot fathom.
Here was a man whose life was a compendium of feeling, a tortured, rebellious youth whose deep sensitivity to criticism was matched only by his ability to dish it out, often with savage, malicious cruelty.
As a director Mr. Hopkins, much like his character, comes across as a befuddled observer of his own film, whose style is a compendium of avant-garde techniques and narrative tricks wielded willy-nilly to suggest deeper meanings below a hyperkinetic surface.
The genome-wide sensitivity profiles obtained from these treatments were then queried for their similarity to a compendium of drugs whose effects on the yeast collection have been previously reported.
"Whether people are conscious of it or not, what Smule is doing is bringing people back to those kind of communal activities," says Peter Kirn, whose site CreateDigitalMusic.com is a compendium of tech music projects and inventions.
But to my surprise, when I brought up my banana split standoff, Ms. David, whose book is a delightful compendium of recipes, family games and tips for keeping children at the table, quickly took my side.
After 10 weeks of a trial whose testimony was a dry compendium of arcane talk by underwriters and other experts, the jury cut more than $1 billion from the insurers' potential liability.
There, women will find a compendium of courses whose designers considered those who cannot drive 300 yards, and for whom a rest stop is not a walk behind a tree.
Sadly, as I wended my way through the pages, I discovered a number of maxims whose inclusion in this otherwise sagacious compendium befuddled me.
The same publisher has reissued ElectRic Light, by Seamus Heaney ($13), like Muldoon a Roman Catholic from Northern Ireland, whose latest book is a rich compendium of genres, from elegy to ecstatic lyric.
