Word: hybridizations
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...managed to use parts of other musician’s work without running afoul with the law. They generally fall into three categories: anarchic, crazy, and rich. The recent wave of mash-up artists (which broke into the mainstream with DJ Danger Mouse’s Jay-Z/Beatles hybrid “The Grey Album”) have brought a new vitality to sampling, but most of their work is produced and circulated below the radar of commercial music. An example of the second class, the wacky Australians in the Avalanches laboriously cleared the rights...
...revenue from a climbing tax could be used to jump-start truly innovative research into hybrid motors, solar power, and other alternatives to a hydrocarbon-based energy supply that has muddied U.S. economic, environmental, and foreign policies. Funding for public transportation could be increased, and fares on buses, subways, and trains reduced. Furthermore, higher gasoline prices would provide a strong inducement for private firms to devise their own gasoline alternatives independent of federal funding...
...service station to discuss a number of largely ineffectual remedies for pulling down prices, some of which Rove had previously discussed in the staff chiefs' meeting. Bush suspended additional deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to divert that crude to the market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal to send...
...replaced by tough love and eventually fatherly warmth. Unfortunately, the mother’s preoccupation with her multiple jobs left Bassett portraying a role with little depth; however, it was nice to see her chiseled arms showcased in yet another movie.At times the movie appears to be a hybrid between “The Karate Kid” and “Finding Forrester” because of the similar themes of eccentric mentorship, the struggle to beat the odds, and the protracted suspense. However, its multicultural cast creates an entertaining mélange of perspectives, which are typically reserved...
...News last week and said: "You got to realize the press secretary not only has to answer questions, but you got to be an advocate for the people asking them when it comes to, you know, getting seats on the plane and doing that. It's a very interesting hybrid job. So you can make enemies for life. What you have to do is you have to figure out to work with them. And you've also got to make sure that you got enough information at hand...