Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The plot alone would be enough to earn Blue Velvet this year's Authentic Weirdie prize. But wait, there's more. Writer-Director Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune) has stocked his movie with artifacts from every decade of postwar America; it could be taking place now, then or never...
Finally Lowell threw his harpoon. He "said to Frost that I wanted to ask him how his reputation had become so exaggerated." Wilson does not report how Frost responded to that -- perhaps he just gasped -- but adds that the victim "looked like a clever old elephant." And after dinner, Mrs...
Meanwhile, U.S. military planners began going through the motions of considering other possible training sites. Fort Benning, Ga., was mentioned. So was, to the horror of some officials at State, politically volatile Puerto Rico. But most experts suspected that in the end, as part of a "covert" anti-Sandinista campaign...
"When you're in bed with an elephant, the situation is uncomfortable. You're afraid of being crushed by the elephant but you're also afraid of being abandoned by it."
Formality is taboo. The president is not Dr. Goldberger but "Murph" to faculty and students alike. Professors lecture in jeans and open-collared shirts, shorts and sandals. They encourage questions and expect challenges. Gray has been known to wear a horse's head while lecturing. Feynman, who played a bongo...