Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flubber. In The Absent Minded Professor, Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber-and then put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
...Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he 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...
...Beech Nut Life Savers Inc., Canajoharie, N.Y., $443,460; Pillsbury Co., Minneapolis, $250,000; Pet Milk Co., St. Louis, $191,000; Green Giant Co., Le Sueur, Minn., $135,500. Under...
...Quite recently, Allan Sherman was an obscure TV producer who liked to entertain friends by singing familiar songs with lyrics marinated in Jewish humor. Then, during the fall, he made a record called My Son, the Folk Singer, which has sold a million copies and made a world-famous nut of him. Last week, on the day that his new album. My Son, the Celebrity, was released, he gave a concert in Carnegie Hall...