Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cyclamate metabolism, cyclohexylamine, causes breaks in the chromosomes of cells grown in the test tube. Injections cause similar damage to the chromosomes of rats. In terms of effects upon chromosomes in human beings-and therefore, upon future generations-no one knows just what this means. No matter how hard and fast the geneticists try to work, it may take years to find the answer...
...revolutionary rock so far comes from a Detroit quintet called the MC (for Motor City) 5. After months of rumblings about them in the pop underground, they erupted at Manhattan's Fillmore East. Their performance was less revolutionary than revolting. While the band churned out medium-good hard rock, Lead Singer Rob Tyner scattered obscenities, referred to the audience as "fellow animals" and, while singing I Want You Right Now, writhed on the floor in sexual postures. The group also performed John Lee Hooker's Motor City Is Burning, and there was no mistaking the message...
...warm-hearted floozy who befriends her, the gruff, tough director who puts her on at the last minute with those classic words: "It's a chance in a million, but it just might work." Everything else is there too-the whiplash body English and frenetic tap routines, the hard-times songs about riches-to-rags and good-times-acomin', the Spanish-town song ("Do you remember those nights of splendor"), the train song ("Clickity-clackity-woo-woo") and the rain song ("Pitter-patter-what's-the-matter...
...hard to believe that none of them ever thrilled to a dance marathon or unwrapped a Melorol...
...addition there will be products by two perpetual leaseholders on bestseller lists, Irving Wallace and Harold Rabbins. Descriptions of their books' contents are hard to come by. Mr. Wallace doesn't like to reveal his plots too far in advance. Mr. Robbins, who makes his up as he goes along, hasn't got to the dictaphone...