Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restaurant features a bar area decorated with green, aqua and red lamps; booths nestled against windows that are covered by thin neon green curtains; and a huge circular grill in the middle of the dining area...
...zeal to convey the importance of the games, Herz occasionally loses her edge and blindly defends them against all criticism. Her responses to the bimboesque portrayal of women and the questionable values that the gorier games convey to children, for example, feel as shallow as an Aqua-Fresh smile (a Herzian saying). The games' shameless pandering to adolescent fantasies is explained with little more than a breezy "what teenage boys want, teenage boys get," while growing parental concern is briskly dismissed as "adults freaking out about their precious darlings being driven to new heights of deviancy by popular media...
DIED. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU, 87, prophet of the depths; in Paris. Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-Lung, the first scuba-diving device, in 1943. Weightless and wide-eyed, he recorded the watery wilderness he encountered in The Silent World, a 1953 best seller and Oscar-winning documentary. He aspired higher than the earthly titles he collected over the years (author, filmmaker, environmentalist), writing "Under water, man becomes an archangel." (See Eulogy below...
...best way to observe fish is to become a fish," wrote Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1952. "And the best way to become a fish...is to don an underwater breathing device called the Aqua-Lung." Like many thousands of other humans-who-would-be-fish, I took his advice...
...illegal political contribution. On Oct. 23 a federal judge in Boston hit businessman Simon Fireman, 71, former vice chairman of Dole's campaign finance committee, with a fine of more than $1 million and six months of house arrest (in his luxury high-rise). Fireman's Massachusetts-based company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, which distributes pool toys and swimming goggles, was fined $5 million. His crime? Making $120,000 in illegal political contributions to individual candidates and the Republican National Committee, including $69,000 to Bob Dole...