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Hasbro is offering Monster Face, a life-size plastic skull that comes complete with "blistering boil," "nose slime drip" and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Santa Might Get Sick | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...headed for the airwaves. Knights and Warriors will pit villains like Princess Malice and Venom against challengers from health clubs everywhere. In Warriors on Wheels, players in souped-up vehicles will compete in events like Road Kill (shooting at passing targets) and Flights of Destruction (crashing their wheels). Slime Bomb we don't want to know about. Don't look for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Out the Lycra, and Check Those Pecs | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...Free speech (this principle must be ritually invoked ever since someone in the national media decided the PC hordes, whoever they are, were dripping slime on the First Amendment). Duke is as much a presidential candidate as non-entity Larry Agran, who spoke at the K-School earlier this year, the argument goes. If only someone had invited Hitler to the K-School Forum in 1932 then maybe we'd still be dealing with the Second Reich instead of the Fourth...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Duke: Why Bother? | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...Orwellian Big Lie. "I did this, but it really doesn't matter -- I'm back." Or "It may have been bad, but it wasn't Dennis." Keep saying it, and they'll buy it. That's how narcissism operates. It doesn't say, "You are an unredeemable slime." It says, "You're special." And it permits them to somehow make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: STEVEN BERGLAS | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...paint the following picture in your mind: insects roaming through a puddle of green slime at the foot of my shower...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: A Delicate Ecosystem | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

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