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...culture and use them in the brain. Whatever happens," he says, "it will be exciting." Notes New York University Neurologist Abraham Lieberman, who will assist in N.Y.U.'s first adrenal-cell transplant this week: "Five years ago, when you talked about brain transplantation, you were talking about Boris Karloff and Frankenstein. Today it's no longer science fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Steps Toward a Brave New World | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...blearily in morning classes, peering at a white expanse of notebook, the professor's voice floating invisibly above my bowed head. Immobile hours in front of black strings of print straightjacket my nerves. I walk out of the library dazed, moaning like a dead Boris Karloff, text-book scraps and computer paper fluttering from my mummified shell...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Mind and Body | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

...swine cross the finish line in 5 or 6 sec. In his best Kentucky Derby style, Holding calls the race: "Pigmalion's first out of the box, with the lead on the rail. Hamtrak settles into second, with Flying Frank third." Suddenly his voice rises excitedly: "Here comes Boaris Karloff on the outside, closing fast around the final turn!" Holding is drowned out by the shouts of the crowd as the pack pounds down the stretch to the finish, where a chocolate-cream cookie awaits the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porcine Pacers: Pig races pack 'em in | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...chores taken on by Deborah Kaplan, who also reported on the story from Los Angeles, was a canvass of Jackson's neighbors. Again that shield. Says Kaplan: "I braved iron gates, intercom mumblings and dogs, and met glares Boris Karloff would have envied. None of those neighbors would talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 19, 1984 | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...Grinch Stole Christmas," Dec. 18. This is the 17th rebroadcast of the animated Dr. Seuss classic, which follows one miser's ill-fated attempt to erase Christmas from the village of Whoville. The late Boris Karloff provides the voice of Grinch, as well as all the other voices and narration...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Rudolph, E. T., and Johnny Cash | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

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