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...take a step back, de-personalizing their songs in what seems like a greater effort to synthesize the “collective unconscious” that their songs aim for with flat, unemotional singing sounding something like a glitchy Schneider TM remix of a Modest Mouse-The Shins hybrid...
Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There ... Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain...
Banfield squared off against Corriero on opposing Team Ontario squads in the 2001 National Championships. Corriero’s team prevailed, but Banfield proved herself a capable defensemen in front of college scouts while playing as a “force-fence,” a hybrid between defense and offense, throughout the game...
...attention of Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999?with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers?NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like Motorola and Alcatel among its investors and this year, according to Feng, will triple its investment capital...
...Feng, 37, is a bit of an odd hybrid himself. He grew up in Shanghai, studying the traditional art of calligraphy, while his parents lived in Beijing, where his father served as a high-ranking communist cadre. After attending the prestigious Harbin Institute of Technology (he majored in "the automatic control of intercontinental missiles"), Feng moved to Canada, eventually earning a Ph.D. in math from the University of Toronto. His first business venture back in China, which made him a millionaire at 26, created joint ventures in gold and diamond mining and then sold them through a deal with multibillionaire...