Word: skulk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MILLIONS WATCHED when a tuxedoed Sylvester Stallone came to the Hasty Pudding last February to guzzle eggs, mumble platitudes and skulk off with Harvard's most crass theatrical prize...
Black cats skulk underfoot; the faces on wall icons frown with disapproval at any liberal impulse; the chief servant, Justina (a delicious turn by Harriet Andersson), has the butch haircut and sadistic ca prices of a prison-camp guard. In this house of silent horror the children can take refuge only in dreams of escape - to the arms of an old family friend, the Jew Isak Jacobi (Erland Josephson), whose house has some old, dark secrets that, in the mind of a child, can seem as exciting as black magic...
Jack and Jill never found out for sure. But they hid behind stacks on D West, in carrel B-20 under the archives of the World Zionist Organization, and on C near Mass Ave (Educ 1028.2) In carrel B-20 after a prolonged skulk up to Level Two, they fell asleep and were awakened rudely at 5:45 by a radio...
...merger binge has brought protests from several prominent Democrats on Capitol Hill, including Senators Edward Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum. Says Metzenbaum: "If Mr. Reagan wants to eliminate the antitrust laws, he ought to come up here with legislation, not skulk around accomplishing the same thing through inaction." Republican Senator Strom Thurmond promised last week that his Judiciary Committee would hold hearings on the Conoco question...
...Popeye's confused and confusing "sweet pattootie"; Swee'pea, Popeye's mischievous "adoptik infink"; the villainous, animal-like Bluto; J. Wellington Wimpy, the hamburger moocher; Rough-House, the short-order cook; Geezil, a boarder at the Oyls; and Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye's long-lost father. Several other bizarre characters skulk about having no apparent role other than adding to the absurdity...