Word: hybridism
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...shows Pandey cavorting with prostitutes, consuming the narcotic bhang, and even befriending a "Britisher"?the film is structured around a friendship between Pandey and an English officer named Gordon. The director, Ketan Mehta, has a reasonable defense: the movie begins with a disclaimer, stating that it's a hybrid of fact and fiction. Not much is known about Pandey's life, and the film invents liberally; yet there is some plausibility to its inventions. No one knows, for example, whether or not Pandey used drugs, but the historical record shows that his officers did think he was under the influence...
...lunch time, and helen Clark is on to her second silly hat of the day. Here she is, at a suburban park in Auckland, turning the first sod of a motorway extension project in a fluoro-orange hard hat. This tableau of rent-a-crowd suits, marquee, hybrid cars, uptight minders, waiters, photographers and TV cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe...
...decades that the living have been in the habit of marrying the dead," writes Link in The Great Divorce. One of current fiction's little-known treasures, she spins her stories in such charming, matter-of-fact tones that you almost don't realize you're entering a hybrid world that's part Muggle and part magic. A love-befuddled boy talks to a character from his favorite TV show on the phone. A late-night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes and moves itself inside a handbag made...
...switches to pricier mobile transmission outside the house. It's still a fledgling technology, because the phones use Bluetooth to make an IP connection, which limits the range in which supercheap calls can be made. But things should get more interesting in 2006, when BT and other providers add hybrid wi-fi/cellular phones. At least four of the largest mobile-handset vendors - Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG - are known to be preparing such devices, which will bring wi-fi phoning more into the mainstream. "2006 will be a big year for [mobile] wi-fi," predicts Nokia senior vice president...
...government incentives are not as developed, but consumers are starting to demonstrate a new awareness of environmental issues. Consider the popularity of the Toyota Prius and other hybrid cars. And design advances are winning converts: see-through solar panels installed in place of regular window glass are a classy upgrade from black rooftop arrays...