Word: glop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alas, those theaters have been razed or, worse, sliced into half-a-dozen small auditoriums that are about as attractive as the men's rooms in Chinatown restaurants. Why should anyone over 18, or not on a date, go to a noisy, rowdy theater with poor projection and get glop on his shoes when a few months later he can rent the same movie--or any other movie--and see it whenever he wants at home? Paramount Chairman Frank Mancuso puts the challenge more positively: "If owners are to survive, they must start building the video theaters of the future...
...Accidental Tourist, suffer from "geographic dyslexia." Like her usual cast of eccentric homebodies, members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...
...this book, Timerman banks on that cacher For from the beige and brown title on the front to the author's picture on the back, the book is singularly devoid of anything new in the way of facts, valuable impressions or lucid argument. It comprises 167 pages of maundering glop whose gloppishness ought to be abundantly evident to the most fanatical West Bank settler as well as any bomb-chucking PLO member, provided both have a half a frontal lobe in working order...
There are only a few moments, however, when the Thing can actually be seen going about its transforming business. Unquestionably, these changes are colorfully horrific, state-of-the-goo achievements for the new Hi-Glop school of makeup effects. Once an individual has been successfully invaded by the Thing, he quickly reverts to his previous form. Thus after the Thing has been at large for a while, it is impossible to determine whose body has been snatched for evil, whose has not. This leads to a certain amount of paranoia. But not to as much suspense as the good basic...
...gently rolling park land on Washington's Mall, the monument will consist of two black granite walls that meet in a V and recede into the ground. One critic, Viet Nam Veteran Tom Carhart, calls it "a black gash of shame." The National Review labels it "Orwellian glop...