Word: frankensteinian
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Fearless Frank is a comic strip brought to life in all two dimensions. In the title role, Voight plays a Supermanic hero and his Frankensteinian twin. Occasionally, he perks up enough to look lobotomized; the rest of the time he second-fiddles amid a frantically improvising cast-which includes Novelist Nelson Algren. The only player who truly understands this kind of cartoon is not the blond, bland star but Severn Darden, a refugee from Chicago's improvisational Second City troupe. Darden portrays a mad doctor who would seem far more at home speaking balloons than lines...
Goings-on that sounded like Frankensteinian attempts to raise the dead were recounted last week to the Massachusetts Medical Society. The narrator, Boston Medical Examiner William Joseph Brickley,* has for many years been trying to determine the precise time of legal death...