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...newly-elected president of the United Genes says at his inaugural address to the millions of purines and pyrimidines who have tuned in, "I will strive to unite all our genetic material from the lowest guanines to the highest cytosines so we can work together to create the meanest, nastiest, most selfish and lustful creature we have ever lived in, thereby continuing our, existence. This I promise." Thunderous applause...
...hottest movie in the U.S. right now is Survive! In three weeks it has grossed $6 million, and it may rank with the nastiest 90 minutes ever to appear on the screen...
...peevish and arbitrary ways. Still Kadushin's study should reduce some of the paranoia that frequently afflicts non-New York intellectuals. For example, the reasons that Jews account for one half of his list are historical and cultural, not part of some ethnic conspiracy. Moreover, some of the nastiest splits and squabbles in literary New York have occurred between Jews. When Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz published Making It in 1968, for example, another Jewish editor and writer, who ranks slightly lower on the list, began referring to the book as "Kike's Peak...
...month I've been watching the late-night horror flicks on Channel 56. And I've discovered that the makers of horror films stick to a pretty strict formula. As I sat frozen in front of these tube chillers, I found that time after time after time the nastiest ghouls and spectres did not make their appearance until the waning stages of the film. Well, it's just like the movies for the Harvard basketball team, because as the season winds up the meanest and nastiest of them all are about to make their appearance...
When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos proclaimed martial law last September, one of the world's nastiest conflicts came to an abrupt if temporary halt. That was the four-year struggle between Moslems and Christians in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands in the south, where upwards of 3,000 have been killed, 500,000 injured and made homeless, and hundreds of villages put to the torch. As it turned out, martial law ended one conflict only to create another. Instead of fighting Christian settlers, the Moslems found themselves battling Philippine army troops who came searching for illegal weapons...