Word: loch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...
...rookie Harvard men's soccer Coach Mike Getman is concerned, the Crimson's NCAA Final Four appearance last season belongs to the misty world of the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti and the Snuffleupagus...
Similarly, "Wrong In The Charts" uses low vocal distortion to offset some Beatle-esque harmonies, and "San Quentin, CA" muddles a country ballad with a batch of terrific grunge. The best tune here is "Loch Ness Monster," an outlandish love song directed at Scotland's most famous anachronistic ichthyosaurus, more commonly known as "Nessie...
Among the undaunted was Jack Grimm, a restless Texas oil millionaire who previously had searched for quarries less tangible than the Titanic: Noah's Ark, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Between 1980 and 1983 he lavished $2 million on three elaborate Titanic expeditions, masterminded by Columbia University Marine Geologist William Ryan and Fred Spiess of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Using prototypes of the Knorr- Suroit sonar technology and submersible cameras, Ryan and Spiess mapped large swatches of ocean floor and took intriguing images of something that Grimm, at least, is convinced resembled the propeller...
...everyday, anonymous Cambridge resident, incredibly lonely, but basically inconspicuous. It is this enigma of identity which makes the Action Man such a legend in his own time. In fact, to identify and confront the Action Man would constitute the destruction of a time-honored myth, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster. A captured Bigfoot is just another mammal; a captured Nessie is just another reptile; an exposed Action Man would be simply just another pervert...