Word: hybridization
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...Cambridge, the show goes on. Rent control continues as a curious hybrid of emotion and uneasy compromise, more useful to politicians than to tenants. Housing grievances are channeled into debates and demonstrations about the control law and the administration of the control board. The political pageant of rent control is a diversion. And until a real solution is found, the circus will...
...Peckinpah's and Arthur Penn's films all social forces were culpable; villains sometimes wore badges and good men could revel in crime. But the mass imitators have not borrowed anything from these men except a violent surface, and have based the content of their films on empty hybrid genres like the spaghetti western. Our movie screens are now replete with dizzying, blood-soaked chaos, apocalyptic visions produced on an assembly-line...
...same time, there was a good deal of inspired soloing, from guitarist Bill Connors and Corea. Connors has developed a unique hybrid sound, one that draws equally from the last five years or so of rock guitar playing. He has a very heavy tone, almost ponderous and always close to the listener; the result of combined use of sustain and vibrato from the usual bank of foot switches filtered through a slightly open wah-wah pedal. You can hear shades of everyone from Eric Clapton to John McLaughlin. His solos were short, to maintain a structural balance, but beautifully constructed...
...tamed the Boston Terrier last Tuesday but with the Army Mule, we've got a hybrid of a different color," he said...
...more like the early Waugh-Huxley novel the author never got to write. In spirit it may well be his most youthful book. As with Huxley, there is an "idea" at bottom. Hamo Langmuir, a famous British plant breeder, is off on a VIP tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter, Alexandra, is following rather the same route. Hers is the sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls from middle-class Anglo-American homes embarked upon in the late 1960s, involving swamis...