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...couldn't capitalize on a big break a few splashes later, when it recovered a Big Red fumble on the ensuing kickoff (Lynch's 33-yarder was a wide right this time after a drive never got going), it appeared that a 3-2 lead against Cornell in the slop might just be sufficient...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Crimson Stumbles Over Cornell, Nature, 9-3 | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

...slop, labeled "Poison for the Government," was then poured in tobacco tins and left to stew in the sun. Russell's daughter Kate says that the game was one of her father's ways of teaching his children that everything the government did was "completely misguided if not deliberately wicked." The game also indicates the degree of pleasure -both principled and perverse-that Russell derived from his nearly lifelong role as the loyal opposition to all forms of authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pleasure Principia | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...fact, insists the doyenne of haute cuisine in America, the best way to master the arcane art is to go to school and learn it. "It's like music. If you don't know scales and chords and fingerwork, you can't do much except slop around." A culinary Juilliard School, by Child's definition, "must be extremely well-run by someone who is absolutely devoted to it. And it must be in France, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Franglais Challenge To Cordon Bleu | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...Bombay Duck were throwing their weight around in New York, the Louisiana Derby of March 22 was taken by a lightly regarded Master Derby. For horse racing myopics who are chauvinist about Eastern racing, that feat came into focus last week, when Master Derby trudged his way through the slop to win the Blue Grass Stakes, his fifth consecutive victory and an important Derby prep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tom Columns | 5/1/1975 | See Source »

...essentially an Oriental successor to the Bump, which in turn was preceded on the dance floor by the Philly-Dog, the Boston Monkey, the Boogaloo, the Frug, the Roach, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, Jack-the-Ripper, the Fly, La Pachanga, the Dish Rag, the Slop, the Hully Gully, the Horse, the Twist and the Madison (renamed the Stomp). And before that, as exhumed by late-night World War II movies, there was Frank Sinatra jitterbugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Kicking with Kung Fu | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

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