Word: blending
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Effects wizards of the future may concoct a seamless blend of new fakery and old, so that John Wayne can co-star in a Julia Roberts movie--technical progress that smells like life-stealing regression. Meanwhile, fogey-geniuses like Lasseter and Park will go forward to the past, creating sweet monsters and frazzled chickens, and astonishing new generations of kids in the dark...
...Then they file out, and blend back in to the melting...
...Balestracci's effort and record-breaking performance this past season has accrued almost universal praise and respect from his teammates. In a way, Balestracci's blend youthful fire and veteran poise has inspired other Crimson players to expect more of themselves...
...Haberdashery MUSLIM CHIC Heading to Afghanistan and hoping to blend in with the locals? Better lose the T shirt from Springsteen's Born in the USA tour or the one emblazoned with a Yankees logo. Instead, pick up a paean to local legend Osama bin Laden. Though he is considered a terrorist and all-round pariah in the West, at home his name moves merchandise...
...fair bet, he argues, that synesthesia is caused by genetic mutations that create dense neural connections between areas of the brain that process sensory information. Ramachandran hypothesizes that in normal brains, a handful of these links might play a role in the formulation of metaphors, which often blend sensory elements of language (consider "sharp cheese" or "bitter cold"). That, he says, may explain why synesthesia is far more common among novelists, painters and poets than in the general population. And, perhaps, why the rest of us, who don't experience the world as synesthetes do, can still take pleasure...