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Word: goo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skin and malfunctioning bank and credit cards, and he believes there may be one. The skins come from the slithery saltwater hagfish, also known as the slime eel. McCosker surmises that the problem is caused by either a metallic left over from the tanning process or some residual goo secreted by the skin. Others say the magnetic clasps on some wallets are the culprits. Whatever the case, some banks are dispensing vinyl card covers to ward off the attack of the anti-capitalist eels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLITCHES: Fishy Coincidence | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

THERE ARE students at Harvard who are quite happy with the academic schedule. There are also people at Harvard whose heads, which normally store important stuff such as thinking goo, are currently filled with a substance of no merit whatsoever. I don't mean to imply that there's a correlation between these two types of students--although a correlation obviously exists. I'm just saying that maybe the time has come for us rationally thinking people to sit down with the people who like the current academic schedule and beat them senseless...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Reading Period Blues | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

...remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brittle Nell THE LATE MRS. DOROTHY PARKER | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Working from the principle that too much is never enough, Russell unloads his inventory of weird imagery. Candied corpses and puddles of rancid goo. A woman's nipples that open to reveal eyes. Claire, filthy and feral, a dead rat in her mouth. Stuff like that. In such films as The Devils and Altered States, Russell found a conjurer's balance between sense and surrealism. But with this catalog of chic atrocities he cannot shock, he can only embarrass. For an artist as canny as Russell, that's crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still Crazy After All These Fears | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...film for taking a date to if you like them. But the only date Dewitt had on his mind was his date with destiny--and he had the makings right there with his amazing new transformation potion! Trembling with scientific curiousity, he ladled out a portion of the special goo, and bang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Dewitt | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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