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Powers cites the "exaggerated outrage, chutzpah, in-your-face" style of many slammers. He might be talking about McIntyre, whose performances involve lots of shouting and stomping. McIntyre's poem in the semi-finals turns out to be a tale of misery from Frankenstein's monster. The crowd is mesmerized. He stops, and leaves the stage...

Author: By John D. Hamel, | Title: Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...Phil Donahue show, G.O.P. mediameister Roger Ailes and vice-presidential spokesman David Beckwith were on hand to defend their man as a heavyweight. Letters to the editor run both pro ("He's doing the best he can do with what God gave him") and con ("a yuppie Frankenstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dope on Dan | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Testifying before Congress, Bruce Rich, chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund's International Program, said none of these groups were "exaggerating when they say they fear that an environmental Frankenstein has been unleashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: Good Intentions, Woeful Results | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...there, Dr. Frankenstein, mucking about with dinosaur DNA are you? Good strong fence around the lab, hmmm? But the villagers seem a bit restless anyway? Well, what do they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dino DNA | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...process a generation of scary kids ready to burn, maim and hack to pieces real or fancied enemies -- kids who had never known a home with parents, never been to school or followed any rule but the rule of survival by violence. Now to save the whites from this Frankenstein monster of their creation, the government was counting on the recently legalized African National Congress (A.N.C.) and leaders like Nelson Mandela to bring these wild ones into some sort of discipline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Still Crying Freedom | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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