Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose collections have borrowed such Latin touches as high-waisted pants and cropped jackets trimmed with beaded fringe. "People want something that is more refreshing and uplifting," he insists. Young designers of all cultural extractions are working to capture the best elements of Spanish design and create a distinctive, hybrid style. "I try to bring it up to date," says Logan. "None of us wants to go around looking like we're wearing a costume from...
...Miami Sound Machine and its spitfire lead singer, Gloria Estefan, sold 1.25 million albums containing their saucy 1985 hit, Conga, which combined American pop with salsa rhythms and established the hybrid "Miami Sound." ("C'mon-shake-your-body-baby-do-the-co nga, I-know-you- can't-control-yourself-any-longer.") The song hit the Latin, black, pop and dance charts and made a crossover star of the Cuban-born, Miami-raised Estefan, 30. "Salsa is not so ingrained in me that I can't do a legitimate pop tune or vice versa," says Estefan, who numbers both Cruz...
Spanglish is a sort of code for Latinos: the speakers know Spanish, but their hybrid language reflects the American culture in which they live. Many lean to shorter, clipped phrases in place of the longer, more graceful expressions their parents used. Says Leonel de la Cuesta, an assistant professor of modern languages at Florida International University in Miami: "In the U.S., time is money, and that is showing up in Spanglish as an economy of language." Conversational examples: taipiar (type) and winshi- wiper (windshield wiper) replace escribir a maquina and limpiaparabrisas...
...seemed imminent as 30,000 steadfast Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace dressed as a humble soldier and set off across the highest mountains on earth. Two weeks later, suffering from dysentery and on the back of a dzo, a hybrid yak, the "Holder of the White Lotus" rode into exile in India...
...problem is that a stock-index futures contract is neither commodity nor security. Rather, it is an unusual hybrid, born during the financial-invention boom of the 1980s, that involves taking a position on the future price of a group of stocks, typically the Standard & Poor's 500. The CFTC first won jurisdiction over the instruments in a bitter tussle six years ago, but the SEC has been looking for a chance to gain control over the fast-growing market ever since. Last week the SEC made its move. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, SEC Chairman David Ruder...