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Word: crossbreeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Technique intrigued him deeply. To many, plywood seems a contemptible crossbreed, neither natural nor synthetic, but to Aalto it was a perfect hybrid of ancient material and industrial technology. Breuer eventually returned to plywood; after the war, Charles Eames pressed it into subtle topographies that had been beyond Aalto'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Still Fresh after 50 Years | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

It looks like a zookeeper's prank: a goat dressed in a sweater of angora. But the odd-looking creature that appeared on the cover of the journal Nature last week is no joke. The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's a Geep | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

The show was conceived as a singular crossbreed of documentary and star-studded entertainment, politics and theatrical pizazz. The script called for Orson Welles to growl out passages from John Donne between scenes of labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better to Let Poland Be? | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

He learned, principally, how to cause a ruckus. Helms was never seduced by the Senate's clubbiness. It was as if he had crated up his Raleigh TV scripts, driven five hours north, and started pitching those editorials into the Senate hopper. If anyone took notice, it was generally with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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