Word: hybridize
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...GARDEN of poisonous plants, Dr. Rappaccini plots the second genesis. He has given life to new species of herbs more deadly than hemlock. Each shrub he cultivates is a hybrid of poison and medicinal, each plant developed as a result of his devotion to science, Dr. Rappaccini's most perfect--and most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam...
Despite the control, the virtuosity, the hybrid quality of the musical technique--there's something you can't explain away in Barbieri's music. His photo on the album cover shows him engulfed in flames, and the image is appropriate...
Throughout the '70s his work-painting, sculpture and cockeyed hybrid -has provided a winding, mythic narrative about travel and exploration, circling back on a landscape choked with color and crammed with eccentric heroes. Each new show provides a fresh chapter. Ferrer's sources are often literary: Pigafetta's chronicle of Magellan's explorations, for instance. His materials are a parade of incongruities -neon tubes and stuffed anacondas, old dinghies and melting ice, dry leaves and wild-dog skins, plastic roses, canoes made of rusty wire, maps that turn into masks, and drums, beads, burlap...
...Nottingham, England. Starting with one acre of land in 1919, Wheatcroft and his brother nurtured the business to sales of 1.5 million roses annually. To commemorate the wedding of the Queen's daughter to Capt. Mark Phillips, he crossbred a red and an orange rose and called the hybrid, simply, "Anne...
Voinovich's Kievstone cops approach seems anachronistic. But the jabs are rapid and effective. Krasnoye is a model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid plant that will grow potatoes underground and tomatoes above. He also believes in excrement as a wonder vitamin that could benefit mankind if only people would overcome their squeamishness. There are send-ups of education, collective farms, newspapers, law enforcement and party organizations. Voinovich's definition of an official...