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...Literally, spawn of turtles, a vulgar Chinese expression equivalent to bastard...
...isolation, The Fearless Vampire Killers is just a bad joke: a little kid's desire to let the bad guys win for once as realized by a thirty-year-old adolescent mentality. But Rosemary's Baby is on their side too; the witches win, Rosemary accepts Satan's spawn as her son, and Polanski's careful dating of 1966 as the year One (the black calendar beginning with the birth of the son of Satan) suggests that 1968 is the year Three, that all things malevolent are heartily thriving...
...difficult for life to arise spontaneously in the atmosphere, Morowitz and Sagan have a ready answer: it did not. Instead, they postulate, ancient Venus had a much thinner atmosphere; its surface, now superheated by the greenhouse effect of a thick carbon-dioxide-filled atmosphere, was once cool enough to spawn life. As more gas was spewed into the atmosphere by volcanic action, however, the surface temperatures gradually became unbearable and could have driven the more buoyant organisms into the clouds, where they evolved and may well exist today...
...thoroughly laced with buried pipe that T.A.L. may be the last of the big crude-oil pipeline projects. Even so, there is still plenty of need for new lines to carry gasoline and other refined products. It is initials that are in short supply. T.A.L. itself will soon spawn A.W.P., a 258-mile spur to Vienna. And some of T.A.L.'s oil will be shunted along from Ingolstadt to Karlsruhe via R.D.O. (Rhine-Danube Oil Line). Since that means reversing the flow through R.D.O., which was originally built to supply Ingolstadt, the line already has a new part-time...
steps of the roaring ladder, and then to clear the top on the last try, alive enough to spawn...