Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious dichotomy about the lose-and-live policy: the avidly curious Russian public had been told nothing about these shifts, instead was being treated to a stepped-up hate-and-horror campaign. All . over the Soviet Union, haranguing poli-truks were laying the basis for what could be a monster show trial of Malenkov on the charge of having organized a mysterious, little known (outside the Communist Party) 1949 conspiracy called "the Leningrad Case...
Teratology. Descriptive teratology (study of monsters) is almost as old as man. Mythology, folklore and history are full of tales of monsters, from the Cyclops and Harpies of classical times to that rural favorite, the two-headed calf. But experimental teratology (monster-making) is only about 50 years...
...make a monster, says Dr. Wolff, is to subject an embryo to violent changes of temperature or to inject it with drugs or chemicals. But this system gives the experimenter no control over the monstrosities that it produces. Much better, he thinks, are delicate operations on the embryo, either with X rays or microsurgical instruments...
...ancients, a chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
...curse of unrestrained bigness. Mightily successful as sheer spectacle. The Pride almost succeeds in personalizing its heroics, but its humans tend to get lost in what amounts to runaway mass movement. Not so strangely, the movie's true hero and source of its emotional appeal is a monster cannon whose ornate bronze undergoes triumphs and mortifications that flesh could never endure...