Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frikson recently startled the scientific community by showing that a specific type of abnormal gene--labelled an oncagene (from the Greek word ongus meaning "excessive growth")--corrupts the healthy cell by creating irregular proteins. These proteins then somehow transform the normal cell to a cancer cell...
...past few years a second line of attack has also uncovered oncagenes as scientists have found genes in various tumor cells that can transform them into cancer cells. Presumably, each oncagene was instrumental in generating the tumor from which it was isolated...
...portrayed the children of divorce as the emotional equivalent of furniture, just another trinket to split in the final settlement. Firstborn looks at the American family in the aftermath of divorce and examines the furniture that must grow up with "new relationship" Skillfully avoiding the artistic temptation to transform the Livingston family into Every Family and the film into The Social Statement, Firstborn draws us into a painful and complex story that may be one of this year's best films...
...judging from the congenially berserk glad rags for men and women that he showed in Paris last week. Extremely deft, marketable clothing was mixed in with deliberately parodistic fantasies. There were gauzy see-through gossamers over checked bikini briefs for men; hiya-big-boy bathing suits for women that transform breasts into medium-range ballistic missiles; and sarongs for everyone. But there were also roomy, temperate suits for both sexes, and a selection of loungewear and splendor-in-the-grass sunsuits that managed to be forthrightly sexy without turning coy. It was shrewd and prototypical Gaultier; in short: clothes...
...tyrant. She has at her command the entire corps de ballet, a force whose threat stems from their anonymity. The willis are terrifying in their immobility, their lack of individuality and their lack of pity. The corps does admirably with the almost impossible task of moving as one. They transform a group of 16 women into a single deathly, supernatural unit...