Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scientists at J.P.L. seemed most fascinated by Voyager's close-up views of the five major Uranian moons. By far the most exotic was Miranda, about 300 miles across and the closest of the large moons to the planet. Miranda, Geologist Laurence Soderblom explained, "is a bizarre hybrid," combining at least ten different types of terrain, some similar to the "valleys and layered deposits of Mars . . . the grooved terrain of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter) and the depression faults of Mercury." The crusts of Miranda and three of the four other major moons, Soderblom said, "have been tectonically shuffled...
...action soon takes over, and Penn simply can't keep his characters ahead of it. In a recent interview, Penn told the L.A. Reader he wanted to make a "popcorn" movie after the commercial failure of his Four Friends, but what's emerged was an unhappy hybrid of character and action. At unexpected moments, in well-observed snatches of behavior and individual shots, just enough character is conveyed and just enough emotional content to keep the audience aware of something more than the standard cloak-and-dagger thriller. And the plot does have a few well-chosen twists before...
Endorsed by the Coalition '85, Russell wants to improve the training of city employees; resolve the hybrid condominium problem by encouraging home ownership; introduce computer systems to all municipal agencies; and increase awareness of the AIDS problem...
Swaim, who is one of three Coalition '85 candidates, says she would like the city to adopt "a carefully designed, strictly controlled growth plan" and resolve the hybrid condominium problem...
Seeing Better Off Dead is like looking at your high school yearbook picture--it's disturbingly familiar. Perhaps it's the plot of boy loses girl, boy gets suicidally upset, boy finds substitute in French exchange student, boy feels better. This a hybrid of Risky Business and Private Lessons...