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...perhaps this anecdote is just a crutch for my own insecurities. See, in truth, I don’t really know anything about professional sports. Currently, my favorite athlete is Wiggler, the giant female worm in “Mario Tennis” that, upon winning a match, will squeal and giggle (the cross-species equivalent of a chest bump) and then turn into a flower. And, to make it worse, all but one of my blockmates is just as completely uninformed as I am. On our last blocking group vacation, beach football was almost unanimously booed down in favor...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Average Couch Potato | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...case, some veteran musicians who haven't released albums in half a decade or longer may be poised to benefit from the current backward-gazing climate. These would include dance-pop butt wiggler turned contract-breaking auteur George Michael; gentlemanly crooner and former Commodore Lionel Richie, and punk poet Patti Smith. The trio have been lying low for reasons ranging from contract disputes (Michael) to personal problems (Richie went through a divorce in his time off, and his father passed away; during Smith's hiatus, her husband died). Normally, long-term hibernation isn't healthy for pop musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OLDER BUT NOT WISER | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...best seller in the socks scene is a style known as the "toe sock" or "wiggler," which fits, glovelike, in between the toes. The toe look is so successful that one manufacturer, Bonnie Doon, will soon introduce a mitten sock that has one section for the big toe, another for the remaining digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Sock-O Look | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...Capp's cartoon cop, Fearless Fosdick, accusing him of "playing loose with law and order." Humphrey, in fact, seems determined to personalize the campaign as much as possible by drawing Nixon into direct combat. Last week he charged Nixon with "demagoguery," declaring: "The country doesn't need a wiggler and wobbler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LURCHING OFF TO A SHAKY START | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...Wiggler (Inactive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lineups | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

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