Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with her old benefactor Johnny Carson, the star of The Late Show is being dimmed. The acerbic comedian last week became the latest in a long list of contenders who have tried and failed to dethrone the reigning monarch of the midnight airwaves. In response to increasingly disappointing ratings, Fox Broadcasting Co. decided that beginning this week Rivers was through as the regular host, although she may alternate with a roster of as-yet-unnamed co-hosts. As for Carson, he uttered only a terse "I had no comment when she went on the air, and I have no comment...
...shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier...
...Fox is Brantley Foster, come to conquer the business world. His uncle (Richard Jordan) runs a vulnerable conglomerate; his inamorata (Helen Slater) is the boss's minor squeeze; the older woman who beds Brantley is the boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). And now that we have the farce machinery purring, let's kick it into high gear. Naaah, why bother? Director Herbert Ross and Writers Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A J Carothers know this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret...
That decision was regarded by the Patent Office simply as an incremental move to keep abreast of advances in biotechnology. But to some people it marked the crossing of a sacrosanct dividing line and was cause for alarm. Patenting plants and microbes are one thing, said Veterinarian Michael Fox, scientific director of the Humane Society of the United States, because "they lack the capacity to suffer." By viewing animals as mere products, he continued, "we seem to be forgetting that these are sentient beings...
While animal-rights advocates concede that conventional animal breeding has produced sickly misfits, they fear that genetic engineering will inflict greater suffering and disability. "Researchers are creating new disease complexes that I certainly couldn't treat," says Veterinarian Fox. He objects to another area of genetic engineering: the development of animals that suffer from human diseases like muscular dystrophy. Yet such creatures would be invaluable in testing new drugs for humans...