Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules. All the same, by letting us follow the happy couple into the First Bedroom, even that White House-friendly movie crossed another threshold. On the other side of that threshold were movies like Wag the Dog. And still to come, if it ever gets produced, is Sacred Cows, with a script by the unblushing Joe Eszterhas, writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, about a President caught in sexual congress with a cow...
Melinda and I got back to the hotel about midnight and considered calling Jennifer at home. She is almost two, and we can ask her exciting questions like, "What sound does a cow make?" I love the way she says "Moo." We decided it was too late...
...When asked whether or not he's going to escape, Snipes says no, no he's not going to leave the scene of the second most ridiculously contrived escape scenario ever to be created, because surely there will be another plane crash or boat crash or bicycle crash or cow-tipping accident in the near future that will make his escape at this point seem a waste of time. Well, he winds up escaping, ending up in small-town America...
Meanwhile, scientists trying to make another Dolly--or her bovine equivalent--have come intriguingly close. For example, James Robl, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and his colleague Steven Stice have succeeded in cloning calf embryos from adult cells taken from a big, hoofed cow leg supplied by a local slaughterhouse. So far they've cloned hundreds of cells and nurtured dozens into embryos, but to date none of those embryos has survived past 60 days of gestation...
DIED. HARRY CARAY, 83, irrepressible baseball announcer who had much more to say than "Holy cow!"; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He spent nearly 60 years behind the mike, the last 27 in Chicago...