Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...there, Dr. Frankenstein, mucking about with dinosaur DNA are you? Good strong fence around the lab, hmmm? But the villagers seem a bit restless anyway? Well, what do they know...
...process a generation of scary kids ready to burn, maim and hack to pieces real or fancied enemies -- kids who had never known a home with parents, never been to school or followed any rule but the rule of survival by violence. Now to save the whites from this Frankenstein monster of their creation, the government was counting on the recently legalized African National Congress (A.N.C.) and leaders like Nelson Mandela to bring these wild ones into some sort of discipline...
...what do you want for $30.74? And what, eventually, will you get? An anti- Disney World, as far removed in spirit from the Magic Kingdom as gray (the dominant color) is from glitz. Both parks have strolling characters, but instead of Mickey and Minnie, Universal has Frankenstein, Marilyn Monroe, Beetlejuice. Both places will sell you plenty of food, but Universal's is spicier, tastier, more sophisticated. In movie-ratings terms, Disney's rides are G (for Gentle), Universal's PG (for Pretty Grisly...