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Word: blob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harden) stranded at the altar because he neglected the wedding. The scenario is a difficult one to swallow, but Flubber tries its hardest to create an alternative reality. Brainard doesn't mean any harm in his absent-mindedness--he's simply too darn busy working on his green blob...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flubberiffic!: Attack of the Green Goo | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...very unimportant, but the goo soon takes over--with a vengeance. The magical morphing jello (created by the wizardry of Industrial Light & Magic) is not given any inherent limits. That's the fun of Flubber --the green blob can do anything. Watch it bounce from wall to wall in a hyperkenetic frenzy. Watch it divide into thousands of little splotches and dash around the room. Watch it make cars fly, watch it help people leap the length of basketball courts, watch it unmercifully assault the villains, watch it morph into all kinds of shapes--and best of all, watch...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flubberiffic!: Attack of the Green Goo | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...Before calling for an appointment, Reno needs more than what she calls "the great blob": the cloud of apparent improprieties over the '96 Clinton Gore re-election drive which, though bearing the odor of scandal, lacks solid evidence of any one criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reno's Poker Face | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

While bouncing supply ships off his space station, cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev found time to star in a commercial. The fruits of his labor premiere Friday when Israel's Channel Two runs an ad for Tnuva, an Israeli brand of long-life milk, featuring Tsibliyev drinking a floating blob of it on the Mir space station. Hope Tsibliyev is getting royalties ? Russia is still considering withholding his flight bonus for his orbital fender-bender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's News Now | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

...offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card for him to send to friends and colleagues. The result was The Spirit of Christmas, an animated short film that centered on four crude-acting, blob-shaped third-grade boys forced to intervene in a nasty fistfight between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. The tape was a smash, passed around and copied endlessly in media circles in Los Angeles and New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE NEXT GENERATION | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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