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DEWITT: You question with the truculence of many drugged Republicans. Why don't you walk back to your car? There's more in Boris Karloff's monster in Bride of Frankenstein than in Interiors. God, what a wheeze-bag bore. I was embarrassed for Woody Allen. Oooh, were those actors acting. Oooh, spilling their guts out into the camera, "I'm so empty I'm so depressed I've got so much anger in me Watch me crack up Boo-hoo isn't life depressing Look at those waves I'm gonna walk into the surf Whoosh whoosh crash splash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Frankenstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Land to Found Science Center In Cambridge | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

After dropping two of her first five touches to Loretta Jeffries, the only Rhode Island fencer who moved back and forth on the balls of her feet rather than clomping up and down like a flat-footed Frankenstein, Lowry captured 18 of her last 19 points in winning all four of her bouts...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Pierce Rhode Island College, 15-1 | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

Beneath that obdurate, aluminum exterior beat two 12-volt automobile batteries, 15 electric motors, 35 relays and hundreds of solid-state integrated circuits. Arok has a motorcycle helmet for a skull, a rubber Frankenstein mask for a face, clothes-dryer exhaust hoses for arms, rubber gloves for hands and a firm, manly handshake. He is remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

People want to know, and have a right to be curious about such things." Indeed, long before anyone heard of Huxley or even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster, people were fascinated and frightened by the prospects of creating life outside the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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