Word: glop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another piece of one's childhood is consigned to oblivion. The reason those hot dogs linger so deliciously in the memory is not the hot dogs themselves, actually, but the toasted buns they came in, and the yellow pseudobuttery glop that reduced the toasted buns to toasted mush, and the elongated white cardboard containers that held the toasted mush so that one could make a game of trying to gnaw on the hot-dog mush without getting one's hands and face entirely covered with the dripping glop -- a game that, to one's parents' despair, one invariably lost...
...tried reasoning with them. I've tried bribes. I've even threatened to take the glop off the shower drain and throw it in their beds. One night I was so frustrated that I thought back to what my father would do when my siblings and I made too much noise late at night...
Much of the character, and indeed the strength, of Sultan's paintings lies in their odd, slightly fetishistic technique. He works on square plywood panels, faced with Masonite and then covered with ordinary vinyl tiles. Over these goes a thick coat of black glop -- industrial butyl rubber, used by roofers. Once this tarry skin is dry, Sultan cuts and blowtorches his design into it, filling in white patches with plaster and enriching the whole with color. The seams of the tiles and panels impose a grid on the image, a ghost memory of the minimalist grids that pervaded American...
...decades, film exhibition was, as Industry Analyst Paul Kagan notes, "essentially a Rip Van Winkle business." Exhibitors let their urban theaters decay into rancid zoos, with crummy projection and that mysterious glop that makes your shoes stick to the flypaper floor. Or they sliced handsome old palaces into tiny tenement cinemas, where SRO could mean not standing room only but single-room occupancy. In the suburbs the exhibitors moved into malls, where their "plexes" had all the charm of welfare clinics. The malls may have saved movies, bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short...
...short called Magic Journeys (to be replaced this September with a Michael Jackson film, Captain Eo), a boy blows milkweed toward the audience, and 586 viewers shiver with delight. There is more magic that the customers never see. A Swedish pneumatic garbage system moves 50 tons of discarded glop a day. The costume room holds l.5 million items of clothing (eight per employee). The huge computer centers under the Magic Kingdom and Epcot control each attraction's speed, music, lights and vocal spiels. In the bakery, Chef Dominic Robertiello can produce 100 pies, 35,000 cookies and 14,400 muffins...