Word: monstering
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...ancients, a chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
...curse of unrestrained bigness. Mightily successful as sheer spectacle. The Pride almost succeeds in personalizing its heroics, but its humans tend to get lost in what amounts to runaway mass movement. Not so strangely, the movie's true hero and source of its emotional appeal is a monster cannon whose ornate bronze undergoes triumphs and mortifications that flesh could never endure...
...that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations: his three-armed Pentagon (July 2, 1951), a camera-faced Amateur Photographer...
...road builders' monster machines were busy everywhere last week. They pushed across the green pastures of Illinois, through the swamps of Florida, over the hills of Arkansas, along the rocky New England coast. Unlike the nation's earlier road builders, who often followed Indian trails, cow paths and other roundabout routes of least resistance, today's planners lay out their roads from helicopters and planes with an eye to the shortest distance, then put their machines to cutting the highways over mountains and through trackless timberland, bridging lakes and rivers, spanning cities...
...this quasi-metaphysical monster Steve offers up a colleague and friend who, he accidentally discovers, has embezzled $50,000 in company funds. At this point Steve begins to wonder whether he is a company man or a company mouse...