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...that was also at full flood nine years ago. "There are parallels between now and then," Jaroff says. "In the 1970s, even though the scientists themselves had set up some very strict guidelines, some people wanted to prohibit all gene-splicing research because of the remote chance that a Frankenstein germ might emerge from the laboratory. Now there are efforts to block tests of agricultural products in the open air for the same reason. The threat in 1977 turned out to be nonexistent, and the chances are that with caution and rationality, this one will...
...putting together the psychology in Memorial Hall with the varieties from Social Relations. Even what Professor Reisman characterizes as our past considerable commitment to the "murky" survives--at least in my work. The pictures accompanying the article suggest a depressing but improbable future for our discipline in which Dr. Frankenstein would continue to mix up the brains below stairs while reports were rapped out on word processors above stairs. The suggestion that the work of Professor Emeritus Henry Murray had something to do with the pop psychology of the movies is ignorant and insulting to one of the great psychologists...
...sound of gunfire, that people kill people. Brilliant. Other scenes are less direct. At a pointless dinner party, the pre-Madonna-esque Ford girl heroine (portrayed, through the eyelashes, by international Cover Girl Adjani), tells a roomful of squares exactly what she thinks of them. With her Bride of Frankenstein fright wig and a gutter-mouthed talent for the unprintable expletive, she makes a speech unparalleled in pure offensiveness. The audience is cued to laugh uproariously. But profanity-as-a-punchline went out with The Bad News Bears, and the audience remains untickled and stone-faced, blushing uncomfortably...
...avant-garde actor-director who with his wife Judith Malina founded and for 38 years ran the influential Living Theater, which used improvisation and superrealistic horror effects to shock audiences and express their pacifism and dissent from society, in such productions as The Connection (1959), The Brig (1963) and Frankenstein (1965); of cancer; in New York City...
...been a welcome new intrigue, not to mention a cheerful national counterimage to Miami Vice. Theories have run from abundant fast-twitch muscle fibers to advanced eye- search patterns to the suspicious breadth of his thumb. What does the monster think? Marino takes a stiff Frankenstein step and laughs. "I dunno...