Word: mutant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...causes weakened stalks to collapse and, at worst, turns ears of corn into blackened rot. Called Southern-corn leaf blight, the fungus has long been confined to the South because its wind-borne spores do not survive the dryness of northern summers. Last year a new and more deadly mutant strain of the leaf blight appeared, and this year it spread north from Florida and Georgia. Farmers use chemical sprays to protect sweet table corn from the fungus, but spraying weekly and after every rain is too costly for the growers of corn raised for animal feed...
...Metalluna!" ejaculates the Alien as a blow-up of a glass marble grows in another window. However, they arrive at Metalluna only to see it devastated by its enemies and taken over by a race of mutant insects the inhabitants had bred as slaves. The three return to Earth in the nick of time. The Alien plunges his saucer into the ocean after bidding adieu to the Earthlings. And the girl admits that she was the one in Vermont after...
...society. But enlightened by "This Island Earth." the movie-goer felt reassured to know that the traitorous fellow-traveller scientists which he feared were only working for peace themselves. And even more reassuring, the Metallunians (read Russians) were involved in internecine wars. They would eventually destroy themselves while the mutant slaves (read Chinese) would inherit a completely devastated world. But despite its patriotic value, the movie propagates the old stock themes...
...placid tourists are led around by their pudgy, green wallets, so dazzled by the physical beauty that they rarely see anything of the real Jamacia," he intones. The real beauty in Jamacia is not in Kingston. "gasping and choking on it blood and its rum" and "exuding a mutant virility," but atop Blue Mountain Peak, where students can stay very cheaply on an old coffee plantation...
...quite far-fetched? Yes. Perhaps. Yet, in the context of this otherwise doggedly realistic novel, the mutant children are a surprisingly compelling solution. After all, it is a reworking of the Noah myth. Mrs. Lessing, because of her careful analysis of modern society, sees fit to purge mankind in a grand psychic, as well as physical, deluge. Only the extrasensory survive...