Word: blobbed
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...called Crature Features which ran at 8:30 Saturday nights. My parents didn't want me to watch it because they were afraid that horror movies would give me bad dreams. They were right, of course, but I watched them anyway. This movie, with the possible exception of The Blob, was the best bad horror movie they ever showed. Being presented this weekend, along with Creature From The Black Lagoon, in 3-D. It has the quintessential horror plot: The good guys are in a space-ship in outer space when they discover that a monster is on board...
...alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...
...Sure (the convention) is a good thing. Business is very good, but only for a few days. Everything is very slow. Nothing is right. People doesn't have money, and they don't go out." The gray blob soars dangerously close to the low ceiling, but returns with a soft slap to the pizzaman's fist...
...suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned. In one sense, the body of Marie-Thérèse, curled up in Nude Asleep in a Landscape, 1934, is seen as a graffitist might see it?a lilac-toned pink blob, twisted and curled to show its openings, nipples and navel, the body recomposed in terms of its sexual signs. It is a hieroglyph for arousal, tumescence in paint. Yet it is something more. For in these images of Marie-Thérèse, Picasso demonstrated his power to materialize his sensations...
...example, the almost always overlooked distinction between being pregnant and actually being a mother. "While the two are biologically connected, emotionally they may have nothing in common at all." In other words, if you are eight months pregnant and find someone else's baby a repulsive blob, you have not necessarily made a horrible mistake...