Word: hybrid
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Intermarriage, of course, is as old as the Bible. But during the past two decades, America has produced the greatest variety of hybrid households in the history of the world. As ever increasing numbers of couples crash through racial, ethnic and religious barriers to invent a life together, Americans are being forced to rethink and redefine themselves. For all the divisive talk of cultural separatism and resurgent ethnic pride, never before has a society struggled so hard to fuse such a jumble of traditions, beliefs and values...
...linking two related disciplines that are already neighbors with a hybrid lab is a very different matter from uprooting and replanting a good portion of the universities departments...
...film version of Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice adds a powerful third dimension to the prose of the reknowned novella. The film is a hybrid of a silent film and an impressionist work of art. This combination lends itself well to a story whose main commentary is on the relationship among life, art and reality...
Between bites of pizza and chocolate chip cookies, van Leeuwen, in a hybrid American-European accent, explains what it takes to be a successful fencer...
...acting, too, begins a precipitous descent. On each successive appearance, Matthew Bakal, as King Ferdinand, becomes increasingly wooden. Jennifer Breheny interprets Queen Isabella as a Marie Antoinette-Queen of Hearts hybrid, gleefully discussing mass executions in the off-with-her-head mode. Kitt Hirasaki portrays the severe Master of the Order of Santiago like a spoilt schoolboy, ready to stamp his feet with frustration...