Word: dyck
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was the last great society portraitist--the Van Dyck of his time, as Auguste Rodin was the first to say. Twenty years ago, to confess an admiration (however sneaking) for his work was to invite incredulity. Sargent? That flatterer of the Edwardian rich? That fat-cat holdover, that facile topographer of the social Alps, that living irrelevance to the concerns of modernism? But what goes around comes around. Sargent's reputation is back as though it had never gone away. Once again, if one can judge from the attendance at the Sargent show...
...This could be seen as a kind of biological warfare," Dyck says...
Imagining a basketball team composed of "five Wilt Chamberlains on the court with back-up Wilt Chamberlains on the bench," Dyck asks, "Who will get the rebounds...
...Dyck says the abuse of the technique leads to dangerous areas, mentioning the possibility of using clones to form national armies...
...addition, Dyck says problems will arise among companies--people would need to be patented for corporations to remain competitive...