Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nominees: Joan Allen, The Crucible; Lauren Bacall, The Mirror Has Two Faces; Juliette Binoche, The English Patient; Barbara Hershey, The Portrait of a Lady; Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets & Lies...
...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...
...possibility of replicating an animal from the dna of fully developed cells is "far beyond the reach of today's science." The next technological step, he notes, might not be too far off. "Suddenly the possibility of cloning a new human from a dictator's nose, as in Woody Allen's Sleeper, is no longer strictly in the realm of fantasy," he says. "If these techniques worked for Dolly the sheep, they will probably work for humans...
...very far. By the way, with the exception of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart (No. 14), everyone on the list ahead of Gates made most or all of his fortune before there was an income tax. Other living Americans on the list: Warren Buffett (39), John Kluge (70), Paul Allen (75), Sumner Redstone (87) and Ron Perelman...
...term relevance. Coincidentally, that was the opening through which all kinds of "new" news rushed through the gates that once separated mainstream journalism from its black-sheep brethren. Thus the divorce of Donald and Ivana Trump "shed new light on the issue of prenuptial agreements." The travails of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow "shed new light on child-custody issues...