Word: gryphons
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...combinations of progeny from the seven men and seven women featured in the TIME picture chart shown below? Doing so by the scientific rules of genetic engineering -- themselves extremely complex and not yet fully understood -- would be impossible. Instead, TIME chose a software package called Morph 2.0, produced by Gryphon, to run on a Macintosh Quadra 900. The Morph 2.0 is an offspring of Hollywood's sophisticated special-effects equipment used to produce such eye poppers as Michael Jackson's celebrated metamorphosis in his Black or White video and the evil robot that wreaks havoc in Terminator...
...media sun, isn't it about time the original celebrity-psychopath got to take a bow of his own? Have no fear; coming this fall to a bookstore near you is The Diary of Jack the Ripper, courtesy of U.S. publisher Warner Books and Britain's Smith Gryphon. The tome purports to offer the authentic contents of a journal penned by the legendary London killer who slashed his way into infamy over three months in 1888 by murdering and mutilating at least seven and perhaps as many as 14 prostitutes in the city's tawdry Whitechapel district. The published edition...
...supporting case was enthusiastic and enjoyable, especially Heitzi Epstein and Judy Milstein as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Together they managed to salvage the first act from total oblivion. Andy Sellon was a riot as the pedantic Humpty-Dumpty. Simon Goldhill and Caryl Yanow as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle were also amusing. Julie Zickefoose and Clare McGorrigan as the White and Red Queens supplied some spirited moments and the chorus was delightful, especially in the Lobster Quadrille dance. Cindy Cardon as the vamping, tap-dancing mutton charmed even those who had given up hope after two and a half hours...
...gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." Clearly, this indicates that inventing names was to be an important function of his race. Contemporary Adam, confronting the menagerie of his own political attitudes, says: "This one is a gryphon. That one is a unicorn." Or, like Spiro Agnew, he invents hybridized contradictions: "That one is a gryphon unicorn." Lexicographically speaking, this Eden is hell...
...final confirmation was needed that the old curmudgeon is indeed mellowing, he switched TV roles last week. Instead of appearing as the barbed interviewer, he played the part of the jolly, flippant gryphon in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Since this modern, de-animalized version had Freudian overtones, the BBC declared it unsuitable for children under twelve. But Muggeridge won warm reviews anyway. "Mr. Muggeridge's whole life," wrote Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian, "has been leading up to the evening when he would dance a dab-toed quadrille, before a carefully prepared audience, against...