Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT MAKES PEOPLE fire on children and completely unarmed men without provocation? Why don't we hear about Black cops accidentally shooting children who "make a quick movement" or reach into their pockets "suspiciously"? A passage from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man may be apropos...
Nothing wrong with that, up to a point, and nothing wrong with the hero worship of fashion designers. They are every bit as deserving of celebrity as the celebrities they dress. One begins to wonder only when such fashion kings as Pierre Cardin, Givenchy, Bill Blass and Ralph Lauren bestow the knighthood of their labels on wines, automobiles, chocolates or home fashions. It merely makes these things fashionable, which is not enough. Caveat emptor. Enjoy the presumed prestige, but do not confuse high-priced celebrity labels with design...
...implications of the experiment for medicine, agriculture and biological research are enormous. The most obvious application would be the creation of giant pigs, sheep and cattle, capable of yielding vast quantities of meat and milk. "If we can make bigger mice," says Microbiologist Ralph Brinster, of the University of Pennsylvania, "we can make bigger cows...
...although Dr. Ralph Gray, the medical director of the Texas Department of Correction, neither inserted the needle into Brook's arm nor fed the drugs into the intravenous tube, he examined Brooks to make sure his veins were large enough to accept the needle and prescribed and mixed the dosage of chemicals that killed...
...Carrabino, basketball on Saturday will probably be no more than a game played by Ralph Sampson and Pat Ewing on a Stillman television screen...