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...only act of vandalism during the spooky night was the spraypainted message "slime" left on the door to the offices of the Harvard Corporation on 17 Quincy St., said Chief of Harvard University Police Paul E. Johnson. There are no suspects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Gets Slimey Treat | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

Until a couple of years ago the Pastures also offered some singular special effects. Sometimes there was a strange gelatinous gunk--"green slime" or "moon glob"--that could be picked up and hurled in lieu of snowballs. There were also acres of empty metal drums, industrial barrels just sitting around; it was hard for any self-respecting young thrill seeker to resist climbing inside and tumbling downhill. Parents seldom ventured into the area. So the town fathers and mothers did not know enough to fear that the moon glob and the barrels might have come from the Baird & McGuire factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...brightly hued and wildly imaginative entries in the aesthetic design and aerobatics events. There were butterflies, dragonflies, bats, flying Supermen and airborne pineapples, as well as F-14 scale models, Star Wars fighters and twin-rotor helicopters. Curtis Haynie, 8, of Hood River, Ore., said his favorite was the slime-green "Flying Lizard," which, according to handling instructions written by its owner, should be fed "small rodents, twice daily." Contest sponsors emphasized that a child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs in design. A case in point was Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Seattle: the Right Stuff, with Paper and Glue | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

Never in this century has a congressional race been so close. And rarely in modern times has a political question divided the House so violently. Some Republicans last week called their Democratic colleagues "thugs" and "slime" and spoke of using "guerrilla warfare" and "massive retaliation." There was even wild talk about Republican legislators staging mass sit-ins, locking the doors of the House chamber or chaining themselves to the rostrum in protest. The source of the bitterness: after months of recounts in the Eighth District of Indiana, a House panel ruled that Democratic Incumbent Francis McCloskey had beaten Republican Challenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Divided: An election splits Congress | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...part, being without an identity that I could subject to public scrutiny, I hid. Like a yellow-bellied piece of preppy slime, I stayed in the safety of the press box, until my would-be welcoming committee was escorted out of the arena by decorum-minded ushers...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: My Dream Weekend In Duluth | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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