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To almost all these versions of the legend of the artificial man there clung the aura of evil. To create a living being was God's role; to imitate God was blasphemous, even diabolic, and thus doomed to disaster. Hence Frankenstein.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Demons and Monsters | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Tunisian Interior Minister Othman Kechrid accused Libya of launching the attack in an attempt to overthrow ailing President Habib Bourguiba, 76. Though he did not mention Tunisia's oil-rich eastern neighbor by name, Kechrid clearly had Libya in mind when he denounced "a neighboring state specializing in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Diabolic Plot | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Pivar, who already owns canvases by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bouguereau and Burne-Jones, is constantly expanding his collection, which is already far too large to display in his cavernous two-story bachelor apartment off Manhattan's Central Park. He concedes that his paintings of diabolic winged creatures, furiously driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Collectors: Three Vignettes | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Christopher Nteta, a member of the African National Congress and the first speaker, said that South Africa was "the most diabolic, barbaric and racist regime in the entire world.

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and Eric B. Fried, S | Title: Students Demand Anti-Apartheid Action | 12/14/1977 | See Source »

The strategy for achieving this goal is called integrated pest control, or ICP. Advocates of ICP leave room in their antibug arsenals for insecticides. The more potent pesticides will always be needed, they say, to cope with any insect problem that suddenly gets out of hand?a mosquito infestation brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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