Word: hybridize
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Michael Moore, the director of the film documentary Roger & Me, is a hybrid of two Ralphs -- Kramden and Nader. The son of an autoworker, he has the persona of a bumbling working guy; he is blessed with brilliant comic timing, and his waistline is Gleasonesque. At the same time, Moore was once the editor of a left-wing magazine, and he considers himself an activist sniffing out the hypocrisies of corporate America. The comedian and the reformer lurk within Moore, and just as he did with Roger & Me, he winningly manages to express both these sides of himself...
...Senate Labor and Human Resources and House Education and Labor bills cover prescription drugs. Senate Finance's provides home care for the disabled. The Dole plan, like the Clinton plan, requires that insurers offer at least 1 of 3 options: fee-for-service; a health-maintenance organization; or a hybrid of the two, known as a preferred provider plan. Dole's plan carries no drug benefits and makes no mention of abortion; his long-term-care expenses are tax deductible...
Cross this grade-madness with a vigorous species of Ivy-League megalomania and you get an ugly hybrid: the B+ blues...
...years, French intellectuals have criticized the Americanizing of French into an impure and odious hybrid, which has been dubbed "Franglais...
...Right. Simpson, the US 3 producer, says jazz-rap should no longer be called a hybrid. It's become its own branch of music...