Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORY of the Challenger begins in the Nixon Administration, when the design of the shuttle, the most complex machine in history, was cemented. One major compromise followed another, as NASA felt the heat of budget constraints and political pressure. The space shuttle became, in McConnell's words, "a hybrid born of desperation...
...head home for Britain, T & D, as the English press calls them, will be as familiar to many Americans as AT&T. To those who watched the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, they already are. Scoring two perfect sixes, they won the gold medal and virtually reconstructed that curious hybrid -- half sport, half art -- called ice dancing...
...only is Jessica not interested, she has a white-faced bull friend by whom she has borne two calves. Says Carrara: "She is very good-looking." Even if she relented, the mating would not produce a hybrid moose-cow, since the animals' chromosomes do not match up. Time is running out as well for the lovelorn moose. The end of the mating season is at hand, and he is expected to drift back to his own kind...
...trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near you has nothing less than a new world order in mind...
...Broadway show was assembled by Ray Stricklyn, who also enacts Williams, and Charlotte Chandler, who visited the playwright for her book of interviews The Ultimate Seduction. The result is a hybrid of the public and the private man: Stricklyn speaks in the guise of Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks...