Word: hybridizations
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...subjects sometimes intimate it is. If the insights made available by a spiritual institution are separate?and bigger?than the imperfect individuals who achieve and transmit them, that means they're still valid even after those individuals lose the thread and mess up. American Zen, that peculiar hybrid of Japanese and American sensibilities that was planted on California's shores in the '60s by Suzuki, Baker and others, may have been damaged by the scandals and embarrassments that Downing chronicles, but that's a far cry from saying it was done in by them...
...start with a divisive statement: all these "open-minded" artists are getting old. I mean the horde of platinum-selling genre-hybrid acts: rap-rockers (Limp Bizkit), R-and-B-rock-teen-poppers (Pink), pop-dance-post-punkers (No Doubt) and Latin-rock-pop divas (Shakira), who practice the eclecticism that has been hot since way back when it was settled that the electronica revolution was a non-starter. Their songs are generally okay, and occasionally breach the lower depths of pretty good, but they're last decade's news; Rage Against the Machine brought rap-metal mainstream...
...respectively, the Gap (ubiquitous and dependable) and Abercrombie and Fitch (stylish and sexy) of the dance world, drum ’n’ bass is the Army surplus store: militant, underground, unpolished and tough. But beyond these three major genres is the world of experimental, fringe and hybrid techno, which are collectively Urban Outfitters: There’s bound to be something interesting, and the best stuff usually winds up in the basement. There are many weeklies that devote themselves, sometimes in rotation, to IDM (intelligent dance music), garage, hardcore, ghetto-tech, unusual breaks, acid house, noise and other...
...Blue Sky, was hyped to all age groups via a marketing campaign that cost about $25 million. Burger King created a new frozen Ice Age drink for the kids. The older, Simpsons-watching audience saw a TV spot featuring the film's Scrat character (a nervous squirrel-rat hybrid with a fondness for acorns) that contained a double entendre about nuts...
Davis likened the program to a hybrid of Pine and existing web-based e-mail systems like Hotmail...