Word: clonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing a villain. His role: Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's SS physician in the movie version of Ira Levin's bestseller The Boys from Brazil. Living in exile in Paraguay, Mengele, with the help of a Nazi collaborator (James Mason), is involved in a bizarre scheme to clone 94 duplicates of Hitler. The evil machinations don't faze perennial Good Guy Peck. "Being obsessed and sadistic is not so hard to do," he reflects. "I am thoroughly enjoying myself...
...radio talk-show host with a Carolina drawl and a neat knack for hyperbole, has been busily stumping the ethnic street corners, tarring his Republican opponent, State Sen. Roy M. Goodman '51, in at least eight different languages. For his part, Goodman--whom Farber describes as "a Lindsay clone"--has waged a yeomanlike battle against the Conservative nominee's barbs on one side, and massive desertions from his campaign staff on the other. It is an interesting fight: the sharp country boy matching phrases with the cool, statistic-laden Harvard grad. It is, however, strictly a battle for third place...
...facilities to perform similar experiments, illustrating the competitive nature of the field. Scientists in the Harvard laboratories uttered bitter sentences when asked for a response to the California discovery. "The only reason we couldn't get those results was because we didn't have a P-3 facility to clone the gene," one scientist said, adding that he did not think the California discovery merited a story on the front page of The New York Times...
...exactly the predicament that L.A.'s managers envisioned a scant 16 months ago. Then they were hunkered down for Clay-day: the invasion of their territory by Clay Felker and his new New West magazine, supported by a $4 million start-up budget. As a California clone of Felker's sassy, brassy New York magazine, New West, it seemed, had only to come and be seen to conquer. "In fact," says L.A. 's Baker, "New West is the best thing that ever happened...
...circulation and Manhattan bailiwick. Though it is frequently footling and vulgar, the weekly's intelligence and imaginative thrust have given its aggressive boss the money-power to take over the raffish, rambunctious Village Voice in 1974 and, last year, to start New West, New York's California clone. They were to be only the first provinces of a Felker empire...