Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abnegation and its palliative role playing are to be found in his childhood. He is, on his mother's side, third-generation show biz. His grandmother, Ma Ray, was a performer-manager in the music halls, a minor legend as the first to bring swimmers onstage in a glass tank. Peter's mother, Peg, worked for Ma most of her life, acquiring in the grimy backstages of the provinces an ambition for stardom, which, when it was frustrated, she focused...
...simple: Ye shall know a civilization by its common customs, and if these are mostly absurd, then it is likely that the society's larger principles have gone awry as well. The modern world's institutionalized lunacies are, of course, symbolized by the lavishly subsidized think tank and the mischief it creates...
Premise No. 1: There is this rogue think tank in which the five resident geniuses have reverted to their original states-high school science club weirdos pulling technological pranks. Reading a survey indicating that the majority of Americans believe in extraterrestrial beings, the scientists decide it would be neat to produce one just to see what the reaction would...
...messianic complex. He is also an orphan, which means that it might be possible to convince him and everyone else that he was produced "like a toaster" on some other planet and brought to earth in a spaceship. The mad scientists put the hero in a water tank for days to take him back beyond the womb. They induce false but highly persuasive memories of his origins and, incidentally, provide Arkin with a tour de force mime sequence in which he acts out the old saw about ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny...
Speaking at the demonstration, Barry Carter, a member of SYL, said Harberger's policies "have meant death and starvation for thousands of Chilean workers." Harberger's involvement with the Pinochet government in Chile is a "disgusting act of U.S. imperialism," Carter said, adding that "Harvard is a main think tank of U.S. imperialism...