Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...length, Toad moved on to an electric model, an IBM Selectric, and grew more rapturous still. Toad said the machine was like a small private printing press: the thoughts shot from his brain through his fingers and directly into flawless print...
Toad processed words like a demon. His fingers flew across the keys, and the words arrayed themselves on a magic screen before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
Nguyen works on post-mortem human brains, and authored a paper which he submitted to the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition--the nation's oldest science contest for high school seniors. His paper dealt with how magnesium and vitamin C interact with antipsychotic drugs in the human brain and nervous system...
Doctors have diagnosed Christensen's problem, which they describe as completely unrelated to his involvement in sports, as caused by blood clotting due to an abnormal artery running to the left hemisphere of his brain...
...diversions like recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result...