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People want to know, and have a right to be curious about such things." Indeed, long before anyone heard of Huxley or even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster, people were fascinated and frightened by the prospects of creating life outside the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...Dracula tale," said Holmes, "stretches credulity to the breaking point. It actually has me saying modestly, the monster was 'one step ahead of me, as usual.' The fiend would never have been a step ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elementary | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...fixed, staring stonily from the dugout, a Grand Teutonic field marshal in double-knits. Bill Lee was doing some yoga stretches in the bullpen, singing Hindu chants from the Bhagavad Gita. The lights from downtown Boston flickered off past right field in the glare of ballpark floodlights, the green monster stood impassive...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...revolt is just what the doctor ordered for a chronic case of national fiscal obesity. We've finally realized that the way to control the Government monster is to cut back on its diet of our money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1978 | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...sleek tans glistening under alligator shirts and Gucci shorts, tote their tennis rackets on top of their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose her lifelong war against crow's feet and encroaching fat, coddles a toy poodle who whimpers against the sharp hissing of the monster diesels; a gaggle of paunchy businessmen, obviously chafing under the discomfort of the sand that still clings to their Coppertone-greasy skin, discusses the probable trends in tomorrow's market. No one quite notices the crowd of young blacks huddled against the newspaper-and-dirty-magazine stand, or feels...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The End of the Line | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

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