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Niven wouldn't get a laugh here: Myers has rendered himself invulnerable to the incinerating one-liners of prudes and sniggerers.
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In these neurons, loss of the one particular ion channel leads to compensatory changes in other ion channels linked to the activity of the neuron to restore the ability to process visual information (Niven et al.
Watching this sequence, I thought of the late David Niven, who, during the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony, saw a streaker charge across the stage and brought the house down with an ad-lib about the fellow "showing off his shortcomings."
) In less commom use, but a wonderful word all the same , is corpsicle , Larry Niven's term for a person frozen at death for future reuscitation and repair (“The Defenseless Dead,” 1973).