Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather who had high hopes for a motorcycle that could pull a plow and a hybrid flower that closed in the presence of tears. "Florists will be mobbing me," said the old man. "Think of the dramatic effect at funerals!" Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes her kitchen so that the allspice would be stored next to the ant poison...
Indeed, watching movies on cassette has become, if not an entirely new form of entertainment experience, at least an interesting hybrid. Like a TV show, a movie cassette must compete with household distractions: dinner, phone calls, children running through the den. Like a book, it can be picked up and put down at will, the good parts repeated--or given up entirely if boredom sets in. George Baxt, a New York City mystery writer who rents up to five movies a day, is typical of the new breed of freewheeling video experimenters. "If it's lousy," he says, "I just...
Bloomingdale's says it added the ads to make its catalogs more distinctive than the 8.5 billion others mailed last year. The carefully calculated result resembles a chic fashion magazine as much as a catalog; it is a hybrid that might be called a magalog. But, after studying the finances, John Chunko, vice president of Catalogue Media Corp., concludes, "By accepting ads, large catalogers are realizing that they can make $5 million in profit over five years and not hurt themselves...
...impact of Hispanics on the larger culture is growing imperceptibly. The most noticeable change is culinary. In Chicago, for example, the Yellow Pages list 36 Latin restaurants, one with the hybrid name of Guadalaharry's; some have appeared in the fashionable Lincoln Park and Old Town areas. In the Long Island suburbs of New York City, packaged taco mixes are appearing in many supermarkets whose customers are nearly all Anglo...
Increasingly dependent on one another, the 7 million residents of either side of the boundary have created a cooperative culture that is neither American nor Mexican. It is a hybrid that has latched on to the strengths of both national heritages. The corridor, observes Journalist Tom Miller in his book On the Border, "is a third country with its own identity . . . Its food, its language, its music are its own. Even its economic development is unique...