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...scientists have access to their work. The ultimate safeguard: bacteria especially designed to self-destruct if they escaped the nurturing environment of the lab. Yet even without these precautions, subsequent tests showed that probably none of the doomsday scenarios could have occurred. Last year the NIH dropped most of the restrictions on gene-splicing work...
...happens every time. You can set your watch by it. Programmed into the women's basketball team is a self-destruct mechanism which goes into effect every time the squad begins to take control of a game...
...tunnel; hordes of anti-War students get "Clean for Gene" and the Wisconsin senator-cum-poet's strong showing stuns LBJ into with-drawing from the race. A ghost with a five o'clock shadow named Richard Nixon rises from the dead as other Republicans self-destruct...
Even his own business was constructed so that it would self-destruct when he died...
...comedy into the modern age, and who consumed himself in the process. These days, not too many people subscribe to the Lenny-as-martyr-for-free-speech theory; while he did fall victim to repression all over America, his personal life was tortured enough to put him on auto-destruct without outside help. In this film, made shortly before his death from an overdose in 1966, you can see both of these elements--the piercing and hysterically funny comedy/social analysis that was considered obscene and Bruce's horrible physical condition. He didn't always look like that; that's visible...