Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past year, the Holy Grail of genetic engineering has been the production of human insulin by E. coli bacteria cells. This work, if successful, would provide an almost unlimited source of natural human insulin for diabetics at a low price, a very tangible medical benefit which would go far towards convincing the public of the benefits of recombinant DNA research...
Though in the past Rockefeller had often had things in his collection copied, especially china, he did not decide to go into reproductions as a business until 1977. Lee Boltin, a photographer who had taken the pictures for a book on primitive art, the first of a series to be published by Rockefeller, suggested the idea. Some experts urged Rockefeller to start slowly and do some market testing to see what items would sell best. Rocky said no. "We could have sneaked into the market over five years," he says. "But I wanted to do a real cross section, everything...
...performers are as durable or as justly adored as Mary Tyler Moore. During the past 15 years she has become an unpretentious symbol of sophistication in a medium where that quality is usually considered a punishable offense. As Laura Petrie, the slightly daft heroine of the classic Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore demonstrated that sitcom suburban housewives did not have to be domestic ninnies chained to a kitchen sink. With her easy wit and sturdy intelligence, almost single-handed she brought TV out of the Lucille Ball-Donna Reed...
Nevertheless, in the past few years, domestics have begun to organize, and in 1974 the federal minimum-wage law was extended to household workers (it is now $2.65 an hour). The National Committee on Household Employment meets regularly to make recommendations for federal regulation of household working conditions. Their bargaining position, oddly enough, is strengthened by their dwindling numbers...
Watership Down may not be the ideal rendering of a book in which a lot of people have a vested emotional interest, but it is a worthy addition to the classic tradition of screen animation. Like the great Disney pictures of the past, it is illuminated by a darkness and an energy that rescue it time and again from blandness and cuteness and give it those resonances that will reverberate in a child's imagination. -Richard Schickel