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...what we just found!" His prize was a rock made up of large crystals; to scientists his description indicated that it had once been molten and had cooled slowly, probably far below the surface. "The Holy Grail," proclaimed NASA Geochemist Robin Brett, who, like Scott, immediately concluded that the specimen could well be an elusive fragment of the moon's original crust. The crystalline rock, the first large one of its kind found by astronauts, may well give scientists a new slant on the early history of the 4.6 billion-year-old moon. It may also expand...
...familiar one. In A Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...
...Mayan maid who is made lor him and stoutly "vouchsafes" the following: "Monja, you've been a brick." But not all of Doc's quirks are endearing. Billed as a paragon of fair play, he nevertheless tends to characterize non-Nordic types as "a low specimen of the Central American half-breed" or as "ratty, dark-skinned" people. In his books black men shuffle, gawk and sputter things like "ah never seed such muscles befo'." Even more peculiar is Doc's method of dealing with the criminals he captures. With confidence in his lofty motives...
...donor mothers or hatched in an artificial womb. Thus, the future could offer such phenomena as a police force cloned from the cells of J. Edgar Hoover, an invincible basketball team cloned from Lew Alcindor, or perhaps the colonization of the moon by astronauts cloned from a genetically sound specimen chosen by NASA officials. Using the same technique, a woman could even have a child cloned from one of her own cells. The child would inherit all its mother's characteristics including, of course...
Buckley and Goldstein piously proclaim that their sheet is not just another specimen of sado-sex journalism, but the distinction seems elusive in Screw. The writing style is often prosaic and juvenile, and the four-letter argot is flung against a wide variety of institutions and individuals-among them the New York Times (which once unwittingly carried an ad for Screw), the TV networks, J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. On the tamer side, there have been interviews with Joe Namath and Timothy Leary and an in-bed session with John Lennon and Yoko...