Word: hybridization
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...impudent satire. It is also oddly -very oddly-moving; not innovative, perhaps, but quite unique. The second film of a young Swiss named Daniel Schmid, it is a reshaping of the story of Camille, with some strains from La Traviata thrown in for good measure. Imagine a hothouse hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have been dreamed by Aubrey Beardsley. What makes the movie so fresh, in addition to lavish visual invention...
...been my impression of much of Goldman's earlier work. It was hamstrung in diction and conceptualization between two worlds. So I expected a misshapen book, claiming to be inside Lenny Bruce's soul on one page and attempting to deliver rounded critical assessments on the next. A monster hybrid, half Tom Wolfe, half Lionel Trilling. And I was reasonably close in surmising what Goldman would set out to do, but dead wrong about the shape of his new enterprise...
...Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!! Goldman the critic, the academic intellectual, and Goldman the New Journalist have come to terms. The book is neither hamstrung nor hybrid because Goldman no longer attempts to be in two places at once. Ladies and Gentlemen stands clearly outside academic style and respectability. It would hardly be more acceptable as a Columbia faculty product than Tropic of Cancer, yet it draws deeply on the intellectual breadth and critical skill Goldman acquired in his academic apprenticeship...
Most remarkable is the plan for a new three-way hybrid that combines some aspects of an airship, a winged airplane and a lifting body (a shape giving aerodynamic lift). The proposed craft, which looks remarkably like a porpoise, was designed by a group of engineers organized as the Megalifter Co. of Goleta, Calif., after NASA'S Ames Research Center invited proposals for lighter-than-air ships to transport heavy, bulky cargoes. At the roots of its undersized wings, which resemble Flipper's flippers, are four jet engines with a combined thrust of 164,000 Ibs. There...
Shapiro's attacks on the bounties of popular television are pratfall absurdist, his dithering humor a hybrid of Robert Downey (Greaser's Palace, Putney Swope) and Carol Burnett. Shapiro's tactic is to restage some popular forms-a commercial, an adventure series, the 6 o'clock news-with all due attention to nuances of style. One of The Groove Tube's best sequences, for example, is a Butz beer commercial...