Word: mutant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...development of this genre in England in terms of the birth of a veritable fire-breathing British dragon while the noble St. George and bands like Pink Floyd, the Yardbirds, and even Led Zeppelin were occupied with the last flashbacks of acid rock or otherwise engaged. Subsequently, two mutant musical offspring of thest evolved with the Godzilla-ish anti-heroics of Deep Purple, Bad Company, et. al. and the Kong-ish comparatively well mannered Queen and various courtiers. Well, personally, I don't care much more for the sugary-coated spring-bolts of, say, Queen's music, than...
...virulent bugs will slip through the safeguards to multiply in the outside world. Faced with this problem at the Asilomar conference. Geneticist Roy Curtiss III proposed an ingenious solution: Why not convert the standard genetic research organism, a strain of the E. coli bacterium, into a seriously weakened mutant variety that would quickly self-destruct if it escaped the laboratory? Curtiss volunteered to engineer the new bug, and his colleagues agreed to hold off on many of their recombinant DNA experiments until they could be supplied with...
Critics say that research in this area could create mutant bacteria with new properties that might cause, rather than control, cancer...
There is humor in our predicament: we have driven sexuality out of the house and into the gutter. Now we are horrified to find it proliferating in a hundred mutant forms. What would seem the obvious solution is to restore the human dignity of the erotic impulse and return it to decent society...
...stubble growing on his chin like a cheap American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns of his enemies. Above all, Stavisky is a man whose sense of living is somehow heightened, whose gestures are grandiose and larger than life. But, like a force of nature, or a mutant, he is never explained--we are left unclear whether this strange, attractive figure is the eternal type of the low-born, high-living con man, an Ivar Krueger or Bernie Cornfeld, or the unique, demented product of his own life history...