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...forces many women to return to work sooner than they would like and creates a huge demand for infant care, the most expensive and difficult child-care service to supply. The premature separation takes a personal toll as well, observes Harvard Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, heir apparent to Benjamin Spock as the country's pre-eminent guru on child rearing. "Many parents return to the workplace grieving...
...educated in the ways of the new vraisemblable. And as the French Freudians remind us, the place to begin is in the nursery. What better way to ease the transition to post-Structuralism than to train your child in the methods of the new episteme? Goodbye Dr. Spock; Hello Yale School of Deconstruction...
Vinton is not your average pretty face. In fact, his face can turn inside out, or metamorphose into Mr. Spock or the Andrews Sisters of a battleship. Vinton is the inventor of Claymation, that nifty process of filming multicolored clay figures in stop-motion, to make people and animals and dinosaurs and lots and lots of money...
Inscribed with the words, "I am not Spock...
...Ripper into San Francisco in 1979), they do just fine. Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) brazens his way through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty of the '60s free-speech movement. "He did a little too much LDS," Kirk explains helpfully...