Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days the explosive growth of both molecular biology and immunology has enabled vaccine makers to take a safer and more effective approach to their work. Instead of using dead or attenuated bacteria or viruses, they remove from the bug's surface the marker protein, or antigen, that provokes the immune response. Employing gene-splicing techniques, they mass-produce the antigen, or a portion of it, and use it as the prime ingredient of the vaccine...
...injury bug plagued her early in her Harvard athletic career. She was out for a time with a broken nose suffered in the national women's water polo tournament in 1986, and missed the entire 1987 season due to major abdominal surgery...
...Disney dictated the entire narrative of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) from memory as his animators scribbled the tale onto storyboards. When Disney died in 1966, the company went into virtual suspended animation. Disney's last big hit of that era was 1969's The Love Bug, about a Volkswagen named Herbie...
...grossed $9 million on a $1 million budget (while the more costly animated feature Sleeping Beauty was earning only $5 million on a $6 million budget). The same elements of domestic fantasy, special effects and easy laughs were cloned over and over for Disney hits from The Love Bug to Splash. Hollywood's future auteurs were watching too. When they grew up they adapted the Shaggy Dog comedy-fantasy into one of the '80s' most reliable genres. What is Michael J. Fox's time-traveling De Lorean in Back to the Future, after all, but a retooling of Fred MacMurray...
...hell did we bug the National Committee? They never know anything. If you're going to bug anybody, you bug the McGovern headquarters!" ((Drummer does a rimshot...