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Journalist broadcasting harrowing tales of The Thing.
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Man Masters Vegetable TIME May 14, 1951
The ThingThe Thing is a ferocious vegetable, eight feet tall, delivered on a flying saucer from another world. It bleeds green, howls like an aggravated banshee, multiplies by dropping seeds into the earth. It thinks like Einstein, looks like Frankenstein's monster and, like Dracula, thrives only on a diet of human blood. The humans staked out by The Thing for its victory garden are a bit more convincing, but not by much. They keep their minds on science, though not very scientifically, e.g. when the grounded saucer's radioactivity sets their Geiger counter sputtering, they walk calmly into the radioactive field. For a while it looks hopefully as if The Thing will destroy the actors. In the end, however, while small-fry moviegoers are brought to a sizzle, man masters the vegetable.
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