Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Between bites of pizza and chocolate chip cookies, van Leeuwen, in a hybrid American-European accent, explains what it takes to be a successful fencer...
...acting, too, begins a precipitous descent. On each successive appearance, Matthew Bakal, as King Ferdinand, becomes increasingly wooden. Jennifer Breheny interprets Queen Isabella as a Marie Antoinette-Queen of Hearts hybrid, gleefully discussing mass executions in the off-with-her-head mode. Kitt Hirasaki portrays the severe Master of the Order of Santiago like a spoilt schoolboy, ready to stamp his feet with frustration...
...Yorker has seen a predictable shift in content during this past year, an expected nod to demographics reflected in a pandering to baby-boomer interests. The cartoons, still penned by the old favorites, seem out of place in this new hybrid...
...Voyeur, a kinky murder mystery created by the Hollywood production company that made Madonna's Truth or Dare, stars Hollywood veterans Robert Culp (from the old I Spy series) and Grace Zabriskie (from Twin Peaks). A true hybrid, it shows real motion pictures on the screen while players control which of hundreds of twists and turns the plot will take...
...woman shows, Bernhard offers a vaudevillian hybrid--part comedy, part song, part dramatic monologue. This genre-bending works to keep audiences perennially on edge as she prods, sometimes viciously, at American popular culture. Bernhard may be trying for something similar with this book, described on the jacket as "a mix of memoir, fiction, invented memoir, and fiction that rings with the truth." This mostly means that these pieces feel unfinished or uncertain. Too many read like abandoned short stories or tiny ideas stretched unconvincingly over a few pages...