Word: gelatinous
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...Motor Co. made sure its well-known auto motive name was prominently displayed on the firm's new power lawnmower. General Foods named its dessert-on-a-stick Jell-O Pudding Pops. Also in the testing stage: Jell-O Slice Creme, a freezer cake mix; and Jell-O Gelatin Pops, whipped gelatin on a stick. "The consumer is suspicious of exaggerated claims and therefore trusts certain brand names," says John Diefenbach, president of Landor Associates, a San Francisco design firm that advises clients on marketing...
...Lost Ark shows Toht, the German villain (Ronald Lacey), dissolving into a puddle. How did Makeup Man Chris Walas do it? He began by taking a life mold of the actor's face. From that he made a plaster skull, which he covered with layers of chilled gelatin. When it came time for Toht to melt away, a heat gun-a super hair dryer-was turned on and the gelatin began to drip. So ended that particular Nazi menace...
...secretions out of his lungs. Though breathing hurt, he required little pain medication. He continued to receive oxygen through a nose catheter. White House aides visit ing that morning found Reagan sitting up and brushing his teeth. He spent the day sleeping and reading newspapers; meals were soup and gelatin. The next day he switched to solid foods and walked a few steps. Toward the end of the week he was walking down the hospital corridor, and doctors were predicting that barring complications he might return to the White House this week and be able to resume all physical activities...
...Psychic gelatin is the main ingredient of Judith Rascoe's Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows. An aimless American woman uses the London flat of a traveling journalist and begins to feel his presence. She wears his bathrobe, reads his mail and manuscripts, talks cryptically to his friends on the phone. The journalist returns to find he is part of a strange relationship and to make the story's point: "One wants to be something, but what is there to be? Now I wish I were an American, now that's something to be! Without a passport...
...envelope chocolate-flavored pudding beaten with clear gelatin...