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Fast food too. In their week at a North Woods cabin, Nice Guy John Candy and his family encounter every unimaginative pestilence: bats, raccoons, stubborn horses, runaway water skis, acid indigestion, puppy love. And, worst of all, a plague of relatives led by Slime King Dan Aykroyd. The comic climax comes when a bear gets its buttocks fur blown off by a shotgun. Anyone out there laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jul. 4, 1988 | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...Smith as the Politician (who is supposed to be Sen. Joseph McCarthy) gives new meaning to the word corrupt. His Southern drawl oozes with slime and blackmail. Despite his choir boy looks and white summer suit, he has the moral code of a modern-day Mephistopheles...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Significant Figures | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...trendy eel-skin accessories. John McCosker, director of San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium, has received numerous inquiries about a possible connection between eel skin and malfunctioning bank and credit cards, and he believes there may be one. The skins come from the slithery saltwater hagfish, also known as the slime eel. McCosker surmises that the problem is caused by either a metallic left over from the tanning process or some residual goo secreted by the skin. Others say the magnetic clasps on some wallets are the culprits. Whatever the case, some banks are dispensing vinyl card covers to ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLITCHES: Fishy Coincidence | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Sweat rolls down the players' backs onto their jerseys, which bear nicknames like "Slime," "Spuds," or "Schooner." Inside the Harvard seal is printed a "KICK ASS" instead of the normal "VE RI TAS". The game--intramural basketball; and the spirit--pure freshman...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Proctor Light Renews Spirit in Freshman Dorm Sports | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

...because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but no because it's wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, A Few Words from the Wise | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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