Word: putters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin Short plays clerk Jack Putter...
...poor Putter opts to snooze...
...Lieut. Tuck Pendelton (Dennis Quaid), a right- stuff pilot, volunteers for a Silicon Valley experiment in which he will be placed in a space capsule, miniaturized and inserted into a rabbit's body. But rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards and win the confidence...
Really, though, how else should one reply to scathing statements like "Napoleon Duarte probably thinks a putter is what you put on toast and a tee is something you wear." Powerful stuff...
...other developments yesterday, several Columbia faculty organized a group supporting the strikers. At Barnard University, which has close lies to Columbia, students there met with President Ellen V. Putter to discuss Barnard's less than $1 million in South Africa-related stocks. Although Barnard administrators made no official statement on the divestment question, students who attended the meeting yesterday morning said they felt administrators are sympathetic to students' views