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And Jocelyn’s version of the play sounds at times as if he’d taken the various texts that survive and put them through a Mixmaster, even shifting lines away from one character and giving them to another.

A draft copy of the latest transportation proposal, o btained by The Hartford Courant, calls for installing electronic tolls for large tractor-trailers on a dozen Connecticut bridges along Interstates 84, 95, 395, 684, Route 8, as well as the Charter Oak Bridge in Hartford and the so-called Mixmaster in Waterbury.

“Sherman’s Showcase,” created by Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, two former Jimmy Fallon writers best known for “Slow Jam the News,” is a joyful Sunbeam Mixmaster of a sketch show, a Spirograph set spinning through decades of black pop culture, finding faintly psychedelic patterns, in the shared tradition of Sun Ra and K-tel.

The state Department of Transportation went out to bid for the project, which involves rehabilitating 10 bridges that comprise the Mixmaster, a massive structure where Interstate 84 and Route 8 intersect in downtown Waterbury.

Mixmaster Nico de Soto, who also runs Mace in New York, has conjured up some of the most playful drinks in Paris.