Word: developers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turning out scripts for shows like Columbo and McMillan and Wife. In 1978 he moved to MTM Enterprises, the studio started by Grant Tinker and his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. After a couple of failed series, Bochco and another MTM writer, Michael Kozoll, were asked by NBC to develop a police series with a human touch. They came up with Hill Street Blues, which debuted in January 1981. Though ratings were low at first, NBC stuck with the show; it went on to win a record 26 Emmys (six for Bochco alone) and to virtually reinvent television drama...
...style, a Bugsy Malone in Nighttown. The Bruce Beresford segment, from Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience at Rameau's Les Boreades, then neglected to develop his night-at-the-opera sketch with any coherence. Derek Jarman's episode, to Charpentier's Louise, imagines an old diva taking a final curtain call, her mind garlanded with fading memories. Sweet but frail...
Overshadowing everything was Gore's inability to develop a consistent message or convey a clear sense of who he is. First he ran as Sam Nunn, differentiating himself from the Democratic pack on defense and foreign policy by speaking loudly about carrying a big stick. Then he ran as Richard Gephardt, picking up the hot populist rhetoric of the fading Missouri Congressman. After that came a Gary Hart phase, as Gore briefly cast himself as the candidate of the future against Dukakis' politics of the past. Finally, in New York, Gore ran at times as virtually a Likud Party candidate...
...Harvard mouse is certainly not the sort of creature that Dr. Frankenstein would have created. In 1982 Harvard Medical School Geneticists Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart developed a technique for producing mice that were highly susceptible to breast cancer; they modified a naturally occurring gene to make the mice more sensitive to cancer-causing agents, then injected the altered DNA into the embryos. By subjecting the adult mice to carcinogens and studying the malignancies that develop, scientists will have a unique opportunity to analyze the complex interplay between environmental and hereditary origins of cancer -- and possibly even produce more sensitive...
...Genetic manipulation of animals to develop new and improved breeds is being pursued in the United States, Japan and elsewhere and will continue to be pursued irrespective of whether patents are granted," Quigg writes in the letter...