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...teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks as if it cost at least 39,000 bubble-gum wrappers) at a passing cloud. He wants to make rain but he only breaks windows-20,000 windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Locomotive Laugh | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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