Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unless he plugged himself into imaginary sockets. At night, he could breathe only with the aid of a handmade cardboard "carburetor" hung on his bedpost. Given to maniacally destructive outbursts at first, Joey slowly quieted under Bettelheim's care. From machines, the boy switched his self-identification to eggs and chickens, which at least were living things. Literally returning to infancy during psychotherapy, he put the second fantasy to ultimate use. On the day Joey first crossed the border to the world of humans, he crawled under a blanket-covered table, cackled excitedly, flapped his "wings," then grew silent...
...EGG. When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exhibit stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but, in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
Occasionally, there is some real fun in Fun City-notably a caricature by John McMartin of a Lindsay-like mayor who listens to bad news while a perpetual smile congeals on his face like a soft-boiled egg. But such high moments are rare, and most of the time the answer to that long questioning title is the movie itself...
...EGG. When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus all their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exercise stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
Cambridge University Physiologists Richard Gardner and Robert Edwards reported in Nature that they mated rabbits, then from the females took fertilized egg cells that had already grown into tiny embryos but had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall. They placed each embryo under a microscope, cut a tiny slit in its surrounding membrane and drew out several hundred cells with a suction pipette. The cells were then examined for the presence of sex chromatin, a substance found only in female cells. Separated into male and female groups, the embryos were next placed in a culture medium, a laboratory...