Word: hybridize
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...offbeat is "Sling Blade," really? In some ways, Thornton's Southern-gothic thriller is an unlikely hybrid of "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction," the tent-poles of the Oscar race two years ago. That is, "Sling Blade" inhabits some fairly original territory, but doesn't deliver on all of its promises...
Whether the tape is authentic or not, the controversy surrounding Chubais goes deeper than his campaign tactics. In many ways he embodies Russia's ambivalence about its own political future: Can Western-style democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...
...film's closing scenes are the only time when the story diverges from its animated predecessor. Screenwriter John Hughes can't resist turning the film into a hybrid of one of his "Home Alone" movies, featuring a drawn-out sequence of physical comedy. De Vil's henchmen Horace and Jasper play the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci roles, as they are flung through windows and into frozen ponds. Cruella ends up the victim of much of this comic buffoonery, as she is kicked by a horse, squashed by an overweight hog, and immersed in a vat of molasses. This sequence...
Wooing both Swing I and Swing II would require a hybrid message. "You don't win by being either tough on everything (like Dole) or soft on everything (the old Democratic cliche)," he says. "You need a synthesis." If ever there was a Zen candidate, a man who could hit two pockets on the ideological pool table at the same time by combining toughness and compassion, it was Bill Clinton...
...Denver-based Baby Bell, for $2.5 billion. In doing so, the company misguidedly ceded to US West a lot of control over any big decision regarding these businesses--such as selling any of them. US West is strategically committed to cable because the company sees the cable-telephone hybrid as the perfect pipeline into consumers' homes, capable of handling video, voice and data. It might be willing to give Time Warner its freedom--as well as a guaranteed outlet for programming--in exchange for majority ownership of the cable assets...