Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...convention came admiring fraternal delegates from 30 lands, among them top-ranking Red Theoretician Jacques Duclos of France. The Communist newspaper Hoy, which Carlos Rafael Rodríguez edits, chortled happily: "The monstrous version of the Communist with knife between his teeth has completely disappeared in Cuba...
...Time Machine (George Pal; MGM) deserves a place on the very short list of good science fiction films partly because its hokum is entrancing, its special effects expertly rigged and its monsters sufficiently monstrous. But the picture's major virtue is that its human characters are compounded not of green cheese or ground-up Dracula scripts, as is customary in such ventures, but of flesh, blood and imagination...
...hard-working future millionaire in need of a shave: he attacks himself twice a day with one of eleven electric razors. Standing 5 ft. 10 in., weighing 150 lbs., he eats little, smokes seldom, drinks ''only with chicks." On his wrist, on a single band, are two monstrous, oyster-shaped gold watches worth $610 apiece. At one time he had 40 watches. A friend, visiting him one day, picked up a magazine and out fell a $300 chronometer...
...which man, as an intelligent being equipped with all the techniques of genetics, neurophysiology, biochemistry and psychology, now possesses over his own future, his power to decide and control his own evolution, while it is not unlimited, is vast and alarming. What secularised man may do with himself, what monstrous organisms he may produce from human genetic material, and what may be his chances of survival we can only guess; the purveyors of science-fiction have here an unrestricted field...
...huge bonfires of joy died down in the cities of the Congo. The drums and tom-toms grew quiet. The last writhing dancers fell exhausted in the dust. The wild intoxication of newly won independence was over, and last week the monstrous hangover began...