Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARY MCCARTHY AND LILLIAN HELLMAN Best Punch: McCarthy on Hellman--"Every word she writes is a lie, including...
...After a successful season in 1997, Eitzmann then took the spring semester off, choosing to work on the trading desk at Hellman, Jordan Management, Inc. in Boston...
Replacement hearts--or even replacement heart parts--are at least a decade off, estimates Kiki Hellman, who monitors tissue-engineering efforts for the FDA. "Any problem that requires lots of cell types 'talking' to one another is really hard," she notes. Bone and cartilage efforts are much closer to fruition, and could be ready for human trials within two years. And what of those magical stem cells that can grow into any organ you happen to need--if the law, and biologists' knowledge, permit? "Using them," says Sefton, "is really the Holy Grail...
Apparently someone at Bestfoods, makers of Hellman's Mayonnaise and Skippy Peanut Butter, did. They have assumed a noble telos this month: increasing awareness of Okra and similar vegetables. Why Okra? Because Okra is an especially black green...
East-coast intellectuals, like Appalachian mountain folk, are famous for their feuds. When Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy in the 1950s, the political elite chose sides, and some still aren't speaking. After novelist Mary McCarthy called playwright Lillian Hellman a liar--or, more precisely, said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"--the literary crowd split in two. They're at it again. That rumbling out of Washington is the sound of a new chattering class feud--and unaligned wordsmiths had better head for the hills...