Word: hybridize
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...rite of passage for A-list actors eager to prove range: the period role. After all, it's easy to look like a leading man while firing an M-16; less so while wearing tights. Aussie hunk HUGH JACKMAN'S Danskin moment arrives in the upcoming contempo-period piece hybrid, Kate & Leopold. In the film, Jackman portrays a 19th century English duke transported to the 21st century who--what else?--grows smitten with a Manhattan corporate climber (MEG RYAN). Having depicted high-testosterone men in X-Men and Swordfish, he says the role "was a big challenge, though I have...
English is now the most creolized tongue of all time, spoken in some form by people on every continent. Well-known English dialects include Patwa (in Jamaica), Scots and Spanglish. But newer hybrid languages continue to evolve. In Singapore English, or Singlish, a tired worker might say, "I was blur at work." Blur means "to not know what is going on." The government is promoting "standard English" over the more popular Singlish, but it's an uphill fight...
...fact, there isn’t much in the Harry Potter score that we haven’t heard, in a slightly different form, before. With the exception of the bizarre Christmas carol-incantation hybrid “Christmas at Hogwarts,” it’s all standard fare. But that isn’t to say that Williams’s career is on the decline. We’ve never looked to him for something revolutionary. Studios like Williams because he creates the memorable themes that immortalize movies. The public likes him because he puts...
...goal is to make the departments take this seriously and there are many different hybrid plans that have emerged,” Wolcowitz says, emphasizing that there is no overarching set of requirements...
They may have named themselves after an evil spirit that has sex with women while they sleep, but Incubus is decidedly not part of the fraternity of rap-metal hybrid acts hell-bent on proclaiming their own alienation. They are sweet lads from Calabasas, Calif., who, after 10 years of grinding it out in run-down vans and cheap hotels, floated unexpectedly to the top of the modern-rock chart this past summer with Stellar and Drive, songs powered by pop melody, well-timed bursts of distortion guitar and uncommon lyrical sincerity...