Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TOMORROW: Coaxing the body to grow bone and cartilage on biodegradable scaffolds infused with a mix of stem cells and growth factors...
...create incurable strains of Black Death (bubonic plague) that were resistant to drugs. This biotech Black Death was loaded into missile warheads aimed at the U.S. As biotechnology becomes more supple and powerful and as the genetic code of more organisms is unraveled, biologists will learn how to mix genes of different bugs to create deadly, unnatural strains that can be turned into deadly, effective weapons...
...Jewels for Sophia showcased Hitchcock at his best, spouting cryptic, conceptual lyrics over a mix of soft acoustic guitars and driving rock riffs. Its songs ranged from absurdist character studies ("Antwoman") to a genuinely haunting love story ("Dark Princess"). There are also two sneering but comical tributes: "Viva! Sea-Tac," on which he proclaims that the Pacific Northwest has "the best computers and coffee and smack," and a live hidden track on which he tells a giggling audience "Don't talk to me about Gene Hackman/he's in every film/sometimes wearing a towel/and...
...rambling between-song odyssey, describing two almost identical pumpkins standing beside each other on a lake shore, admiring each other. "It must be totally horrendous to be in love with something so like yourself," he remarked before launching into the next song. The songs themselves were a mix of old and new work (Hitchcock describes the show as "a resum of what I've done in music.") but it was the man's intermittent rant that was most fascinating. Interrupted occasionally by the entrance of other band members, he told of a higher plane of existence that is like...
...whatever it takes to see the Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping son; obsequious, bumbling Ditto (Paul Kerry), the mayor's would-be right-hand man, and so on, and so on. Though there is some fine acting in the mix, none of these characters is on stage long enough to provide more than a suggestion of local color. Indeed, since these minor players never develop beyond mere "snapshots," one wonders if The Last Hurrah might have been better realized as a Broadway musical, Ragtime style...