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pastiche
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2009
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pas·tiche
/ paˈstēsh; pä-/
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n.
an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period:
the operetta is a pastiche of 18th century styles |
the songs amount to much more than blatant pastiche.
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an artistic work consisting of a medley of pieces taken from various sources.
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a confused mixture or jumble:
his speech is a pastiche of false starts and unfinished sentences.
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v. [tr.]
imitate the style of (an artist or work):
Gauguin took himself to a Pacific island and pastiched the primitive art he found there.
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Pastiche.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Pastiche by Richard Dyer. London and New York: Routledge...Hardcover: $110.00 and Paperback: $30.95. Pastiche is a highly original reevaluation of what else?--pastiche, a form of imitation and quotation that has, during...
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Fear and loving in Las Vegas. (concept of pastiche in postmodernism)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...amalgamations have been exhausted, leaving only pastiche as a means of assembling what is ostensibly...Post-modernism and Consumer Society, pastiche is a key component in a new aesthetic...the death of aestheticism in the arts. Pastiche is a re-assemblage of former practices...
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THE PANACHE OF PASTICHE WHEN BRANDT HECKERT AND EILEEN COLLINS OPENED A BAKERY-CAFE 20 YEARS AGO, THEY BROUGHT A LITTLE BIT OF EUROPE TO PROVIDENCE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...PROVIDENCE - The tiny, stylish shop called Pastiche, the Fine Dessert Bakery and Cafe...Heckert and his wife, Eileen Collins, Pastiche looks brand new, but it's been here...might serve 300 people on a busy night. Pastiche is everyone's favorite pastry shop...
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Pastiche offers worldly blend of savory flavors
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/10/1998; ; 700+ words
; (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 Pastiche 4343 N. Clarendon (773) 296-4999...but occasionally absent-minded. Pastiche, dubbed a global cafe, is aptly...creating dishes with clarion flavors. Pastiche is usually open for dinner only...
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PASTICHE CONCERT SET
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/14/2006; 605 words
; ...news release: The musical quartet, Pastiche, will perform in a free concert at 3...Minerd. Since its inception in 1995, Pastiche has been acclaimed for its talent and...through commissioning of new works, Pastiche exhibits fascinating and creative interplay...
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Parody or pastiche? Kathy Acker, Toni Morrison, and the critical appropriation of Faulknerian masculinity
Magazine article from: The Faulkner Journal; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...postmodern narrative is characterized by pastiche. Parody, Jameson asserts, still flourished...it has lived, and that strange new thing pastiche slowly comes to take its place. Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar...
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Pastiche to open first leather, fur unit in Short Hills, NJ.
Magazine article from: WWD; 6/25/1985; 595 words
; EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Pastiche, a new specialty division formed...manager for Leather Warehouse and Pastiche. Leather Warehouse, a 17-unit...goods in the $90 to $250 range. Pastiche will carry women's and men's...
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PASTICHE QUARTET TO PERFORM SEPT. 29
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...University issued the following news release: Pastiche, a whimsical quartet of four virtuoso...of Music and Tutto Bene in Bemidji. Pastiche, which means collage or patchwork...legendary composers. Using that foundation, Pastiche has gone on to commission 65 new works...
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Pastiche Covers Globe for Dishes
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/29/1993; ; 670 words
; PASTICHE (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 4343...that now hosts the wonderful new Cafe Pastiche. This obscure location is on the second...French restaurant with a cult following. Pastiche is even more eclectic, with a menu that...
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Recipe for success of Pastiche's franchises.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 12/2/2003; 468 words
; ...opened its third franchised restaurant. Pastiche Bistro has unveiled an outlet in Tamworth...last October. The expansion is based on Pastiche's concept of quality food and service...at a cost of around pounds 80,000. Pastiche now hopes to continue expanding, with...
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pastiche
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...artist, or period: the operetta is a pastiche of 18th century styles | the songs amount to much more than blatant pastiche. ∎ an artistic...mixture or jumble: his speech is a pastiche of false starts and unfinished sentences...
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Pastiche, Pasticcio
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
Pastiche, Pasticcio a medley, potpourri or hotchpotch; an opera made up of various pieces; a picture based on another ’ s...
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Lewis, Jerry
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...company to direct series of pastiches of Hollywood films (later...1949 Fairfax Avenue (short pastiche of Sunset Boulevard ); A Spot in the Shade (short pastiche of A Place in the Sun ); Watch on the Lime (pastiche); Come Back, Little Shicksa...
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Daring, Mason
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...of Matewan, the country and western, rhythm and blues, and Mexican folk music of Lone Star. There's never any sense of pastiche in Daring's scores; rather it is a matter of assimilation from within. Daring may be unique among film composers in having...
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Prokofiev, Sergei
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...x2014;"lightly serious, or seriously light," as he described it—satirises the czarist court with playful pastiche that hints, in its melodic flow, at the world of Tchaikovsky. In his music for the "death scene" he even creates the equivalent...
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