While in Paris he wrote surrealist verse, and dabbled in communism, from which he then retreated.

During this period he knew George Eliot and William Michael Rossetti, and dabbled in verse in the Pre-Raphaelite style.

William S. Burroughs, who briefly dabbled with Scientology, wrote extensively about it during the late 1960s, weaving some of its jargon into his fictional works, as well as authoring non-fiction essays about it.

) Manne even dabbled in Dixieland and fusion, as well as " Third Stream " music.

There were two main camps — the Minimoog players and the ARP Odyssey / ARP 2600 players — with most proponents dedicated to their choice, although some players decided to pick and choose between the two for specific effect, as well as many who dabbled with products produced by other manufacturers.

According to Collins, he and Cordell worked equally on the book, with Collins focusing more on material relating to character building, sample undead and running undead, while Cordell dealt with monster design and undead material, but he said that they " dabbled in each others '" sections quite a bit as well ".

William S. Burroughs, who briefly dabbled with Scientology, wrote extensively about it during the late 1960s, weaving some of its jargon into his fictional works, as well as authoring non-fiction essays about it.

He also dabbled with writing comics, including Mister Miracle ( third series-1996 ), a stint on Green Arrow, Justice League Quarterly, Justice League America # 50, as well as an issue of Superboy ( The Adventures of Superboy # 21 ) and a Scooby-Doo mini-comic.

The term also gained currency among a group that studied Classics and dabbled in pederastic poetry from the 1870s to the 1930s.

Unlike its predecessor, which was more straightforward hardcore, this album saw the band covering most of the styles they had dabbled with in the past.

Though having dabbled in many genres, he is most famous for Nestor Burma, the anti-hero of Les Nouveaux Mystères de Paris.

Over the years, most of the musicians dabbled on piano, synthesizer and other keyboards.

On Sunday 20 April 1997, the national UK newspaper The Independent ran a front page article in which it claimed that Crispian Mills " had dabbled with Nazism and its most potent symbol, the swastika.

Although the group has dabbled in various musical styles and techniques over the years, the most recent has involved the showcasing and amplifying of mistakes and equipment failures.

He is best known for singing reggae music with an R & B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all-time.

By most accounts, Pfaff's own drug use was relatively moderate: " Kristen ... dabbled in drugs before she was in our band, in Minneapolis, but it was very light ", Erlandson told Craig Marks of Spin.

While most relied on simple observation ( radio silence, EMF Detector ), some of the dares relied on specific re-enactments of haunting events, and a few even dabbled in occult or paranormal possession ( séance, automatic drawing, spirit channeling ).

He worked extensively in experimental jazz and dabbled in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured.

He says the Gulf War was all about oil and claims to have dabbled in pacifism.

As was common for Protestant ministers of the day, he dabbled in science: his particular interest was astronomy.

He dabbled in various projects, including writing music for the film Shampoo and acting ( he was cast as Tony Lacey in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall ).

Burton was a mathematician and dabbled in astrology.

He dabbled in chemistry, and according to Thomas Burnet, " he thought he was very near the finding of the philosopher's stone.

From this it was guessed that he dabbled in attempts of gold making.

He also dabbled in fiction, writing children's stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume series of stories about rural living in America, the first of which was titled " Adventures in Contentment " under the pseudonym David Grayson.

Lord Killanin was also a director of many companies and dabbled in the film industry, collaborating with his lifelong friend, John Ford, on The Quiet Man.

Forrestal was born in Matteawan, New York, ( now part of Beacon, New York ), the youngest son of James Forrestal, an Irish immigrant who dabbled in politics.

After being discharged, Frank returned to New York and dabbled with several different jobs until he was accepted into NYU.

As a businessman, he dabbled in railroad investment, but was forced to yield control of the original New York Central Railroad line ( from Albany to Buffalo ) to Cornelius Vanderbilt.

As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature.

It was at Gore House that d ' Orsay met Benjamin Disraeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, themselves young men of fashion who dabbled in the arts.

Cole dabbled in architecture, a not uncommon practice at the time when the profession was not so codified.

Although Candolle's main focus was botany, throughout his career he also dabbled in fields related to botany, such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.

She, however, dabbled in the black arts, and theirs was a loveless match ; so Tarannon sent her on a ship back to the south.

His other son, Kevin, has dabbled in professional wrestling as both a referee and wrestler under the names " Kevin Christian " and " Freddie Gilbert ," the latter of which was used during a stint as the " brother " of Eddie Gilbert.

He was considered a purist and has not dabbled in experimental forms of music, except for a well-known series of Jugalbandi recordings with the Carnatic signer M. Balamuralikrishna.

This tradition waned somewhat in the late ' 70s but was revived in the New Wave era of the ' 80s, as pop singers Boy George ( of Culture Club ), Pete Burns ( of Dead or Alive ), and Philip Oakey ( of The Human League ), frequently appeared in a sort of semi-drag, while female musicians of the era dabbled in their own form of androgyny, with performers like Annie Lennox, Phranc and The Bloods sometimes performing as drag kings.

Dickens was part of a circle of prominent professionals, physicians as Dr. John Elliotson ( famous mesmerist ) and actor William Charles Macready, who also dabbled in mesmerism.

In November 2003, he dabbled with a one-off drive in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Homestead circuit before being called by Bobby Rahal to drive the # 15 Argent Mortgage Honda when Kenny Bräck was injured in a late-race crash at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003.

Lee has also dabbled in the historical novel with The Gods are Thirsty, set during the French Revolution.

Tourism on the island developed after the arrival of Walter Spies, an ethnic German born in Russia who taught painting and music, and dabbled in dance.

From 1981 he studied German language and literature, philosophy and art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, but also dabbled as a musician and finally dropped out in 1983 to work as an assistant to the experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes.