Word: mutant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against it. That vehement distaste led him to exclude the Godfather movies from his recent purchase of TV rights to 300 Paramount movies. Odd, then, that he's buying New Line, a company whose success has derived from gratuitous martial-arts violence (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies) and gratuitous slasher-film violence (its Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Friday the 13th series...
...worse. Sporting the top graduate school of business administration in the country. Harvard cannot even manage its own finances. (An anology with the second-to-last place Oakland A's bloated payroll and its spoiled children, comes to mind.) It has brought to life in the HMC a mutant of one of Crichton's dinosaurs: a Moneysaurus-Rex. In place of the don't-play-God-with-nature message of Jurassic Park, we get a don't-play-ball-with-the-Harvard-endowment...
...newly discovered defect does not in itself produce cancer in the way that an inherited defect causes cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia. "What the mutant gene does is create a predisposition to cancer," Vogelstein explains. "And it's only with additional mutations after birth that the cancer will appear...
Deanie Gauthier, who calls herself the Mutant, is in far worse shape. She's a foul-mouthed outcast a couple of years younger than Sam; her response to sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriend is self-abasement in several directions. She shaves her head and wears a nose ring and chains, shrugs at kindness and buys drugs with sex. But she plays ball with amazing ferocity, and she and Sam lead their respective teams to the Maine championships, falling into a sad, touching losers' love affair along...
...eerily confident mind, Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is both a motion-picture visionary and a good old-fashioned showman. To his critics -- just about every zit-free moviegoer in the country -- he's a schlockmeister, producer of a string of cheapo '50s horror movies in which mutant monsters, by-products of nuclear carelessness, at once symbolize and exploit everyone's edginess about the recently unleashed atom...