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...ever heard Jay-Z?” “No, what’s he like?” “Jay-Z is a male, African-American, Brooklyn-born, rapper!” “Wow! That’s a hilarious and totally unlikely combi-nation! I’ll be sure to listen to him a lot now.” This would be, of course, ridiculous, but the phrasing’s not that far from the reason why Matisyahu has managed to sell any records. His fame is spreading across the country...
...stomach twisted and turned with the old VW bus that served as a combi for several Indian villages in the mountains of Chiapas high above the town of San Cristobal de las Casas. The rough wool of the traditional poncho worn by the old Tzetzil-speaking man beside me scratched my arm as he helped his wife out of the bus with their now-empty egg crates. The driver leaned around to tell me that the next stop was Oventic, the Zapatista camp to which I had been invited to meet the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) Commission...
...stole a car? Yeah, a VW Combi. And drove it round the block and took it back to where we got it from. We couldn't work out why it wasn't going very fast, and we realized that we hadn't taken the hand brake off. We were fairly useless as car thieves...
...still have disappointment with some of the equipment--combi ovens that are falling apart--but they've been working with us to make it better," chef Hegarty says...
Laser uses the same basic technology as CDs and delivers the same clarity and impact. Laser players (which start in the U.S. for a little over $400) have friendlier features than VCRs, and the latest models -- "combi machines" -- can play both compact and laser discs. These newly available combis will likely heat up the laser market even further. In Japan, where the laser business is now valued at $1.5 billion, the major electronics companies are gearing up for a grand-scale manufacturing push, and Sony will start to sell its laser-disc player in the U.S. this spring...