Word: mutant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extravagances of pulp epic and the flat-light simplicity of vintage Archie comics. Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer (Eclipse; 70 pages; $19.95), set in the '30s, teems with robust adventure and romantic misalliance, all drawn in the scrumptious Sunday- funnies style of Milton Caniff. And the three volumes titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (First Publishing; $9.95 each) sport with the whole genre, portraying a quartet of Testudinatas, trained by a wise rat in the refinements of Japanese martial arts, as they swing through various U.S. metropolitan areas righting wrongs and creating mischief...
...Students at T.M.U. get a minute-by-minute--i.e., course by course--written outline. Each period begins with appropriate sound effects. There are snores for philosophy and ape squeels for biology. The professor gives a summary at the beginning of each class--for example, in biology, "I'm a mutant. You're mutant. We are all mutants...
Antibiotechnology activists were infuriated with Strobel's actions and with his mild punishment. They claim that scientists could unwittingly unleash destructive mutant bacteria into the environment, a worry that is considered alarmist by most scientists. Says Jeremy Rifkin, a Washington lobbyist: "We cannot expect the scientists to police themselves. They feel they are above...
...system so weakened by another organism that it no longer keeps the virus in check. Two recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association failed to link EBV to fatigue syndrome. Harvard Researcher Anthony Komaroff, an author of one study, suspects that another virus, perhaps an "EBV mutant," will eventually prove to be the cause...
...possibilities of atomic conflict breed mutant thoughts. "Suppose I survive," Amis speculates, "then -- God willing, if I still have the strength, and, of course, if they are still alive -- I must find my wife and children and I must kill them." In the parables that follow this shocking statement, a former circus strongman discovers his family murdered by London toughs, a case of schizophrenia mirrors a fractured universe, a dragon-size dog ritually feeds on the residents of a small village, and in the year 2020, time becomes a fatal disease. A recurrent theme is that the world has lost...