Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These price increases critically undermined the Green Revolution. The hybrid seeds need great amounts of water, fertilizer and pesticide. If any of the three are missing, yields plunge, often below what traditional seeds would produce. After paying for their oil imports-up from $3.7 billion in 1972 to $15 billion this year-the developing countries had little left to buy the chemicals and nutrients that their high-yield, intensive farming requires. India, for example, can afford only half the fertilizers that it needs for maximum crop yields...
...simply Holmes's refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation on the "points" of a railroad track, emerges as a hybrid of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans" and "The Adventure of the Second Stain...
...moonlights as an instructor at Berklee. Keith Jarret on the other hand, is a pianist who has rejected electronics completely and plays nothing but normal piano. But this has not cramped his style at all. In fact, his extension of new music past the limits of the Jazz-rock hybrid has made Jarret a genuine innovator. As a special attraction the Harvard Jazz band will be appearing too--so go. October 31 at Sander's Theater. All tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Holyoke ticket center...
...impudent satire. It is also oddly -very oddly-moving; not innovative, perhaps, but quite unique. The second film of a young Swiss named Daniel Schmid, it is a reshaping of the story of Camille, with some strains from La Traviata thrown in for good measure. Imagine a hothouse hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have been dreamed by Aubrey Beardsley. What makes the movie so fresh, in addition to lavish visual invention...
...Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!! Goldman the critic, the academic intellectual, and Goldman the New Journalist have come to terms. The book is neither hamstrung nor hybrid because Goldman no longer attempts to be in two places at once. Ladies and Gentlemen stands clearly outside academic style and respectability. It would hardly be more acceptable as a Columbia faculty product than Tropic of Cancer, yet it draws deeply on the intellectual breadth and critical skill Goldman acquired in his academic apprenticeship...