"Here is the modern miracle of technology," he said.
The film was advertised as "the modern miracle you see without glasses", a dig at the 3D movies of the day.
"In a peculiar way, the things that people talk about as modern miracles are very different from what I did 30 years ago," he said.
Improved nutrition and modern medical miracles sound like obvious explanations.
Even with all the modern medical miracles, there's nothing we can do to sue him.
That sounds like a modern miracle of technology, and perhaps it is.
Take a single incident of what Wallace has truly called a modern miracle.
Only recently did it occur to us that all our modern miracles were tinged with rue.
She told me formula was the very best thing, a modern miracle, but we couldn't afford it for two.
It was a modern miracle that Karajan worked long years to register and preserve on film.