Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we do need to draw a distinction between what has historically been a coed institution and what has not. Yale for instance. Now Harvard is a special case, all along it has been a kind of hybrid institution...
Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge. Cackling over the edge of a tub in which the Emperor is playing a nude scene, he tells Napoleon: "Talleyrand once told me you had four women in one night." This indeed is the stuff of history...
...with its long-planned space shuttle. To be built at a cost of at least $5.5 billion over the next six years, the system will be designed to transport at least a dozen passengers and cargo between orbiting space stations and the earth. The vehicle is to be a hybrid that looks something like a jet fighter, takes off like a rocket and lands like an ordinary plane...
Polanski takes occasional excursions into outright fantasy, as when Macbeth has a feverish dream following his second meeting with the witches. But the scene is visually uninspired and mechanically clumsy. Faces and images swirl up out of the hags' cauldron, spin about, dissolve, disappear, as if in some hybrid of hallucinogenic nightmare and the kind of antique special effects that looked awkward over 25 years ago in Hitchcock's Spellbound...
...these problems is how to feed the increasing population. In the U.S., at least, food is scarcely a problem at all (except for the nation's shameful failure to find a system for feeding surpluses to the poor). On a global scale, too, the so-called "green revolution" -hybrid grains, new fertilizers -has vastly increased harvests. According to American correspondents who have recently visited China, a nation that once knew famine as a recurring torment now boasts rich crops. To be sure, the green revolution is not totally victorious, and there are many political obstacles between the agronomist...