Word: sliming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roommate's stepfather Marty has a favorite piece of advice for young women: All men are slime until proven otherwise. After helping my roommate move her things into our first-year dorm room, he left us with those ominous words, which we promptly immortalized on our common room bulletin board...
Marty must have expected us to run across a Jacob Barker or two. Barker, the protagonist--if he can be called that--in Anne Bernays' Professor Romeo, is not only the epitome of slime, but he is utterly unaware of his depravity...
WHEN Sally first met Harry, she thought he was a slime-ball...
That calls for Arkady Renko, who happens, by chance and Smith's ingenuity, to be a lowly worker on the ship's "slime line," hacking up fish and hunkering down from further recriminations for his dogged sleuthing in Gorky Park. Convinced that his investigating days are over, Renko neither seeks nor wants this assignment, which threatens his anonymity and possibly his safety. Significant people on the ship would also like to see him remain hidden and humbled. One of his enemies-to-be reminds him of his expulsion from the only group that truly matters in the Soviet Union. Renko...
Take Ghostbusters II, for example. Once again the psychomagnotheric slime is flowing in Manhattan. Once again spooks are aloft among the other pollutants in its atmosphere. Once again paranormal phenomena (this time in the service of Vigo, a sometime Carpathian tyrant, whose spirit inhabits an antique portrait) have singled out Dana (Sigourney Weaver) for special attention. Once again the old team of exorcists -- wisecracking Venkman (Bill Murray), absentminded Egon (Harold Ramis), earnest Ray (Dan Aykroyd) and stouthearted Winston (Ernie Hudson) -- is ready to deploy its pseudo science in the service of exorcism...