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• n  a motley assortment of things

• The team that won the World Cup in 1998 was famously celebrated as a melange of "Black, Blanc, Beur" (black, white and Arab).
• In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange," an addictive spice that conferred powers of prophecy and transcendence.
• First appearing in the 80s and 90s, these deeply influential tales, a sort of Archie-comics-meets-Marquez melange of complicated pan-American inter-relationships, are a comix epic.

• odds and ends
• oddments
• farrago
• ragbag
• mishmash
• mingle-mangle
• hodgepodge
• hotchpotch
• gallimaufry
• omnium-gatherum

News & Articles

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• Tica's takes over Aladdin's Corn Hill Landing spot
  It's a sitdown restaurant for the lunch and dinner crowd that serves a melange of style: Greek, Mediterranean, Latin.
  June 19, 2013 - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
• AlunaGeorge, Like, Totally Channel the '90s in New 'You Know You Like It' Video
  AlunaGeorge continue to artfully tap '90s R&B nostalgia in the new clip for the impossibly sticky "You Know You Like It," abstracting MTV's glory days into a visual melange of era-specific signposts...
  June 13, 2013 - Spin

Quotes

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• Janet Maslin in Anime News Network
  In spite of some pretty grumpy, dismissive reviews (the New York Times' Janet Maslin described it as a "lurid melange of violence and soft-core sex...... embarrassing even by comic-book standards", which made up my mind to see it) I lined up at...
• Donald Findlay in The Guardian
  Defence counsel Donald Findlay QC described the material as "a hotch-potch, a melange of a whole variety of matters which is, in my submission, of no practical purpose whatsoever to any terrorist".