Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show belongs to a breed of prime-time series that pumps along year after year without the benefit of buzz, or even hum. Like a Kraft casserole your in-laws just won't stop serving, Fox has offered up the tasteless Married...with Children for close to 10 years now. Meanwhile, even though the media stopped paying attention back when the cast was taking its PSATs, the kids on Fox's Beverly Hills 90210 have been slogging--in real time--through high school and four years of college. ABC's Family Matters and its alien-voiced, freak man-child Steve...
These attacks are offered in the name of protecting the breed from the crushing popularity that is expected to accompany the release of Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians. The Disney corporation is envisioned as a character in one of its own animated films--an ostensibly friendly giant galumphing around in the garden of American culture and crushing everything it picks up in its lumpy, mass-market fingers...
...those rich people in Virginia manage to snatch the Civil War out of the giant's path by thwarting plans for a blue-and-gray theme park? Never mind, giant. Over here, in another part of the garden, is an entire breed of dog you can destroy...
Apparently, bad-mouthing the breed is considered the only way to blunt a Disney-fueled demand that could cause thousands of ill-conceived Dalmatians to be dumped on the market by puppy mills and thousands more dumped in the street by bored children who didn't really bank on that cuddly little puppy's growing up. Given the disaster-movie tone of the reports, it wouldn't surprise me to see citizens running in panic from their homes, shouting, "Help! Help! Dalmatian meltdown...
...does believe genetic manipulation can be a key to prolonging life. Manipulating any senescence genes could be years--indeed, decades--away. But the alternative--subjecting human beings to the same selective mating processes applied to lab animals--is out of the moral question. "We're not going to be breeding humans the way we breed fruit flies," he says. "We have to find some less fascistic method of intervening in aging...