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...common. The blonde in most of his Polaroids could have been the one that I had chased in high school. He and his best friend owned practically the same green Chevy Malibu that my cousin and I wrecked. Even his most hated teacher reminded me of the walrus-like man that ostensibly taught me beginning Biology...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...minded as Porky's Goes to Arrakis? Nobody did; and one can admire the world Herbert and Lynch have created even as one feels like an illegal alien visiting it. At the very least, Dune provides a bizarre bestiary of characters. One such, the Navigator, is a giant walrus-like creature that rules the universe while floating inside a liquid cage. The Harkonnens are the comic villains of the piece. These red-haired nasties with a taste for drinking human blood and baroquely torturing farm animals are led by the pustulous, airborne Baron Vladimir (Kenneth McMillan) and his aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fantasy Film as Final Exam | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 8, 1984 | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...office. They include a bobcat skin, the head of a white-tailed deer and a stuffed pheasant. Pausing at a side table, he picks up a two-foot-long bonelike object. "That?" says Arnett, with barely concealed delight. "That's an usuk, the private part of a male walrus. Eskimos use it in their ceremonies as a fertility symbol." Ambling back to his chair, he chuckles: "Some animals are luckier than humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Sharpshooter at Interior | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Over the weekend, students were relieved to find out that they had not been given another problem set, and celebrated by reciting from the fake test. Andrew D. Mastin `87 repeatedly quoted question 2: Using only a walrus and as much broccoli as you need, build and calibrate a time-of-flight mass spectrometer...

Author: By David S. Rosenthal, | Title: Chem 5a Students 'Stimulated' By Bogus Practice Hour Exam | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

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