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Clark's story is a hybrid of The Rainmaker and the collected works of Larry McMurtry (Hud. The Last Picture Show). He tells of two antagonistic small-time ranchers, a tomboy spinster (Fonda) and a good-natured World War II veteran (Caan), who reluctantly pool their resources to battle a takeover by an expansionist landowner (Robards). The villain, meanwhile, has problems of his own-an oil-company executive (George Grizzard) wants to plunder the cattle fields for crude. It is not difficult to guess what follows. Like every other so-called modern western, this one features a trusty...
...CHARACTERS on the seedy stage of the Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill Threepenny Opera look out for themselves. An effective production of the unique hybrid of cabaret song, Broadway show, and revolutionary tract should leave you asking yourself whether you're any different. Brecht's script keeps up a steady fire of political comment, and his socialism slips in discreetly enough so that even American audiences in the '50s could stomach it. But it's Weill's brooding, often harsh music--so evocative of Weimar Germany's rotten core--that fixes The Threepenny Opera's world of human iniquity and mortality...
Recombinant DNA research, or, as it is nicknamed, gene-splicing, involves the combination of DNA, the basic material of heredity, from different organisms to create a hybrid organism with very different and unpredictable charcteristics. The DNA introduced into the experimental organism will dictate different genetic information when the organism reproduces, thus creating a different organism...
...experimentation is potentially hazardous largely because of its unpredictability; an experiment could result in bacteria which produce insulin or the creation of new strains of dangerous bacteria that resist antibiotics. Often, the DNA is inserted into the E. coli bacteria, which live in the human gut, but if these hybrid organism were to escape from the laboratory, they could enter the human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation...
Adjustor is a hybrid position, known as monsterback in the midwest, which requires a player equally adept at guarding against the pass and run. Masterson always lines up on the strong side opposite the opposing team's tight end, which means most of the power running plays come his way, though he is also responsible for picking up the tight end on passing plays...