The high-cheating holidays are freighted with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones.
As for Polke, count on him to pepper the conundrum with miscellaneous meanings.
The first time, it opened the program, with miscellaneous fare ensuing (works of Federici, Schneider, and Naumann).
But he had another and more important gift: an understanding of human nature, a high talent for dealing with miscellaneous personalities and temperaments".
And the Quakers replaced drab pawns with miscellaneous objects, later mass-produced by Dowst, a Chicago-based company that created Cracker Jack prizes.
Walking on Sunshine is a movie counter-programmed against the dog days of summer, a jukebox musical fanatically selling a feelgood stereotypical hen-night vibe with miscellaneous 1980s hits.
Shepheard favors what he cheerfully calls "fast criticism," modeled on work of software engineers who begin with miscellaneous bits of prefabricated code and mangle them together till they yield a new program.
That aborted collection is in another room, with miscellaneous non-New Yorker cartoon anthologies and collections, and doubles of New Yorker cartoonist collections (mostly Peter Arno, George Price, and Charles Addams).
The guest list included seemingly every music writer in the city; scores of people from the music industry with miscellaneous friends in tow; and a handful of celebrities, among them Jimmy Fallon and John McEnroe.
The arranged pairs were always left behind, along with miscellaneous spillage: a brand-new platform shoe might lie on its side in a puddle; a well-worn hiking boot might still stand, stalwart as an old dog, on the shattered sidewalk.
Ms. Gillen fills her dance-theater works with miscellaneous props; muscular choreography replete with grappling, awkward lifts; and lots of snappy back-and-forth between her performers (who might, like many dancers, invest a bit more time into the craft of acting).
