Word: andromedae
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...Andromeda Strain, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 10. Four films from China, Sunday...
...unravel that alphabet soup, Author-Physician Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, The Andromeda Strain) recently looked over some back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton, who wrote novels even during his days at Harvard Medical School (class of 1969), was appalled by what he read. The style, he reported in the Journal, was "as dense, impressive and forbidding as possible." Examples...
Crichton, venturing outside sci-fi (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man), again proves a skillful researcher and popularizer. Drawing from such scholars as Henry Mayhew, a bygone chronicler of the criminal subculture, he wittily lances the pomposities of 19th century England, when material and moral progress seemed inseparable...
...Such diseases would result from a reshuffling of genes and not from new genetic material like the virus from outer space in Michael Crichton's 1969 novel (later a movie), The Andromeda Strain...
WELCOME TO ANDROMEDA. The hero was almost totally paralyzed, but Ron Whyte's first play quivered with instinctual dramatic life...