Word: frankenstein
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...FRANKENSTEIN, 1981 A special effects-laden staging of the classic lost roughly $2 million and closed after one performance, ending the suffering of Dianne Wiest in a supporting role...
...fashioned high heel (which women wore when I was young) to today's model does not look to me like progress for women. The old heel may have been just as hard to walk in, but was infinitely more graceful. The new shoes look as if they have a Frankenstein life and motion of their own; young women walk in them (ungainly and swaying, waving their arms for balance) the way an inexperienced rider sits an energetic horse that is barely under control. These shoes are a dangerous responsibility. Not much liberation there. In fact, the shoes look like...
...Frankenstein in Chicago...
...taught himself to read by age three, and by five he had read Shelley's Frankenstein. By eight he had read all of Victor Hugo's works...
...songbird's voice genes, so the first struth chirps like a sparrow. Or maybe the brain development did not quite hang together and the creature is born incapable of normal movement. As this suggests, the first such experiment will almost certainly produce a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, and the whole idea may well therefore be cruel and unethical, in which case, let us hope it never happens. But that is not the same as saying it will be impossible...