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...particular victim of the script is George Klupko (Colonel O'Korn) who has to utter some terrible lines, but nonetheless manages to slug through the material to the bitter end. Klupko creates a manic melange of Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn, but his battle with his lines is short-lived and futile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye Bye, Bye Bye Verdi | 2/25/1987 | See Source »

...hardly spoke to us during the meal. Once each evening Tsuji would call to me at the other end of the table, 'Fisher-san, how do you like this?' 'Delicious, but what is it, Tsuji-san?' I would ask, and he would answer, 'The ovary of a pregnant sea slug.' And that was my conversation for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: With Bold Pen and Fork | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...three years later students got half a loaf: the team is the Artichokes, but the colors are blue and white. Last year a similar nickname struggle took place. By 5 to 1, students at the University of California at Santa Cruz voted to call school teams the Banana Slugs in honor of a slimy yellow gastropod that swarms over the seaside campus on rainy days. Lest anyone miss the message, pro-Slug students said they meant to twit the "football mentality" of other California schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in A Nickname? | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...think I realized my tragic error somewhere among this tenured lunatic's aforementioned and subsequent rantings. You're wrong. I realized it after he finished his last poem--something about watching his cat eat a slug--and the people around me gave him a standing ovation...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Fatal Mistake | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...first two Monday nights in February, each of Boston's college hockey heavyweights--Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern--slug it out in the cavernous Boston Garden for what amounts to the neighborhood championship...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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