Word: sliming
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...satire to the silly comedy-adventure shenanigans of a Gene Wilder--Richard Pryor movie. Director Joel Schumacher and scriptwriter Jane Wagner let the film slowly slide into the quicksand of banality, and they rely on the immeasurable talents of their star to keep Shrinking Woman's head above the slime...
...dumps in New Jersey, as well as farms and woodlands that hide chemical waste sites: "Hazardous waste does not always look ugly. Quite often these dumps are neat rows of beautifully colored drums shining against a gorgeous, air-pollution sunset. We found too that some of the most photogenic slime was harmless. We had to get precise shots of the right slime...
...polluting it with tiny fibers similar to asbestos, a carcinogen. Recalls Jon Luoma, head of public relations for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: "If the sun was right, or you were in an airplane, you could actually see the tailings moving southwest toward Duluth. It looked like a green slime...
Cheers for Lance Morrow's Essay on decadence [Sept. 10]. It's about time someone dug decadence out of the slime and put it in our laps...
...crew taking time out battling the monster to look for the ship's pet cat, Jonesy. As for the undulating ectoplasm known as the alien, you wonder why the crew isn't wearing lobster bibs. Somebody clearly had a good time putting it together--pouring on the blood, slime, and animal intestines--but the fun as all his. Actually, in its last scene the alien does exude a little personality, curled up in the corner of a space shuttle cleaning itself off, smacking its lips, coming to resemble a Hollywood producer, perhaps the producer of Alien, speculating on the grosses...