Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bug that eats oil is the result of nearly six years of work by Ananda Chakrabarty, 41, an Indian-born microbiologist. Like most of his colleagues, Chakrabarty knew that at least four strains of the common pseudomonas bacteria contained enzymes that enabled them to break down different hydrocarbons-the major ingredients of oil. He combined these strains into what he describes as a "superbug" that can eat oil faster than any one of the four can individually...
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...would not be fair to say that those responsible for Bug are entirely without resource or a sense of novelty, however grotesque. They contrive, for example, to extend the limits of black humor by turning a scene of a woman being burned to death into a laugh sequence. That this is done inadvertently only increases the merriment...
...them gets into his wife Carrie's (Joanna Miles) hair while she is cooking a birthday dinner. The bug gets a pretty good blaze going, and it is not long before Carrie is rushing around her California ranch-style house trying to extinguish herself, all the while looking as if she has just been hot-wired in a beauty shop. She expires, however, and Husband James goes even crazier. The fire bugs stun him with a show of their united intelligence and strength. Completely snapped, Parmiter tumbles into the fissure, the bugs besieging and barbecuing him relentlessly...
Washington's most erudite young writer, George Will, pronounced it a "tremendous summer." His two children got the chicken pox, and he explored a whole new field of community relations as the bug spread in his neighborhood. But there probably was no finer hour, he claims, than the August morning when he walked out his front door and declared his lawn "a wilderness area" to be left untouched for the remainder of the season. "My contribution to conservation," he explained...