Word: shmoo
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...catch it so much as consume it. If ugly had an attitude, it would belong to center fielder and team firebrand Lenny (''Nails'') Dykstra, the Dead End Kid with an endless muddy stream of epithets and tobacco juice. If it had a clotheshorse, it would be John Kruk, the Shmoo-shaped first baseman who tore his pants lunging for a ball early in the final game and, either defiantly or absentmindedly, left his underwear on display for the next seven innings. And if ugly had a poster boy, it would be Mitch (''Wild Thing'') Williams, the reliever who has destroyed...
...line, the earth featureless and red, the sky equally featureless (except for the ceremonious care with which the paint has been deposited) and blue. In the sky hangs a thing like a bladder, with a thin black line dangling to Earth: the ''flower.'' The ''rabbit,'' a sort of yellow Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing else. It ought to be ridiculous, but it is profoundly haunting, full of an indefinable melancholy provoked by what Miro identified as the main motif of his work: ''tiny forms in vast empty spaces.'' And you are always struck by the sheer amount...
Given a slim, trim young body, that is. In tight-fitting overalls, large-beamed ladies often ludicrously resemble Al Capp's pearish Shmoo-or Winston Churchill in his wartime siren suit. But retailers are working with manufacturers to bring out jumps for the well-upholstered...
...early '50s Li'I Abner, with its fantastic animals, the best known being the Shmoo. had for nearly 20 years proved that whimsy and literacy could be popular. Walt was no imitator: he was one of the most original humorists of our time. But Li'l Abner had prepared the public for his genius...
...from critics who did not know quite what to call them. "It seems impossible to describe them without vulgarizing them," said the Manchester Guardian. "They could be puddings, breasts, biological specimens-but they could also be offerings to some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says. Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors. These are achieved by spraying on 20 thin coats of high quality lacquer, which, he proudly points out, is the same method used on the West...