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Cooper had a motto, his "three D's": keep it distant, difficult and dangerous. He and Schoedsack forged a style of storytelling that simply doesn't exist anymore, a style that is hard to define yet quite distinct. It is evident in all of all their productions together. What distinguishes the style? For one thing, speed. Denham meets Ann Darrow; seconds later she is on her way to Skull Island. Kong escapes in New York; within five minutes Ann is in his hand as he climbs the Empire State Building. Her love affair with Driscoll is sketched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Freshmen are at a distinct disadvantage pitching against these teams," Thoke said. "The mound is different from high school. These girls (the Lobos) are good, and Kara showed heart, and got an out right after the slam...

Author: By Robert. A. Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Leads Off New Season With California Road Trip | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

Take, for example, his 1993 remark that "homosexuals undermine civilization" and that homosexual behavior was "shameful." The aggressive: he said this while testifying in favor of a Colorado constitutional amendment which would have banned laws that specified homosexuality as a distinct category for legal protection. The passive: he said that laws protecting specifically gays would patronize them (an argument Machiavelli sort of makes in his Discourses on Livy). And though the BGLSA (it didn't have a "T" that year) might have hated him, several of its members liked and respected Mansfield personally...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: The Aggressive-Passive Mr. Mansfield | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...debate over the ethical, emotional and practical implications of human cloning, identical twins?distinct beings who share the same DNA?present the closest analogy. Identical twins are in fact more similar to each other than a clone would be to his or her original, since twins gestate simultaneously in the same womb and are raised in the same environment at the same time, usually by the same parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Sister, My Clone | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...debate over the ethical, emotional and practical implications of human cloning, identical twins--distinct beings who share the same DNA--present the closest analogy. Identical twins are in fact more similar to each other than a clone would be to his or her original, since twins gestate simultaneously in the same womb and are raised in the same environment at the same time, usually by the same parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Cloning: My Sister, My Clone | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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