Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe it happened too soon. Three months, 62 issues and $4 million later, its paid circulation running as low as 50,000, the Trib last week went the way of the Sun, the World, PM, the Mirror, the Journal-American, the World-Telegram, the Herald Tribune and the hybrid World Journal Tribune. Leonard Saffir, the paper's founder, publisher and editor in chief, blamed the severe winter for hampering distribution and timorous department stores for failing to advertise in the tabloid. "It was the community that put this paper out of business," fumed Saffir in a farewell address...
...interminable and overheated campaign for the French legislative election of March 12 and 19 was fought over three stakes. First, it was a test of the hybrid constitutional system set up by Gen. Charles de Gaulle. The popularly elected president has vast powers, but most of them can be exerted only if his prime minister has the support of the National Assembly--if the Executive and the Legislature are controlled by the same party or coalition...
...playing to the crowd with a limited script based on pop Freud and Jungian stereotypes. His enthusiasm for discovering mythic power in such popular arts as movies and comic books was not appreciated by the guardians of high culture. Yet Fiedler outflanked them by describing himself as a hybrid of chutzpah (Yiddish for nerve or gall) and pudeur (French for modesty or reserve...
Byrne is anelusive writer, one moment singing about love and sensations, the next saying something like "be a little more selfish/it might do you some good." Brrrrr. With a voice that is a hybrid of Donald (Steely Dan) Fagen and David Bowie, Byrne has a tendency to sound spacey and detached. He compounds the effect by singing from an appropriately spacey and detached point of view. In nearly every song the singer marvels at some new sensual experience, the problems of life or his friends. His outlook recalls those aliens in "Star Trek" who rhapsodize about the flood of feeling...
...DIFFERENT VEIN, Bromberg creates a hybrid of dixie-land and rock around Gus Cannon's "Stealin'," producing a sound interesting enough to justify its appearence as yet another version of that frequently recorded rag. On this cut, as throughout the album, Bromberg holds himself back, never displaying the sheer virtuousity he has shown himself to be capable of. At the start of the song, for example, he offers only a few bars of tasty rag picking before drowning the guitar out in a melange of horns, mandolin, bass and drums. Although the absence of flash is somewhat disappointing, Bromberg...