Word: cloning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa, for instance, the cry has gone up against liberal Democratic Senator Dick Clark that he is nothing but "a clone of Teddy Kennedy." Republicans had better take a second look. As his words to the mayors in Atlanta show, Teddy Kennedy is talking about ways to keep the lid on spending. He is even arguing that his $27 billion national health-care plan is the essence of frugality; otherwise health costs will be even higher. Teddy's heart may not be in the same place as the heart of Howard Jarvis, but Kennedy and his friends are getting...
Gore Vidal, author, reflecting on his craft: "Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare had perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about five and Samuel Beckett one-and perhaps a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them...
...scientists overwhelmingly reject the possibility, saying that the major barrier--inducing an egg fertilized with an implanted body cell nucleus to develop--could not yet be overcome. They say that since a frog was successfully cloned in the early '60s, researchers have been unable to clone a mouse, let alone a man. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical School, voices a common objection to Rorvik's claim: "I'm sort of surprise that the barriers could have been overcome so quickly and without hearing about...
...made at the Winterhaven Mall. It was a "request" disco filled with pretty sedate people--slumped and smoking and going to the bathroom--except for a bunch of minor league ball players propped up behind the revolving merry-go-round bar playing "flick the cockroach." A big Thurman Munson clone walked up to me wearing a Harley-Davidson t-shirt and yelled in my ear that I wasn't drinking enough. A "Mother Harley" tattoo embellished his hefty forearm, set flatly in front...
...more parts like this, and she too will begin to look like a clone - of Julie Andrews...