Word: astral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homers in 1987, his first full season, are a rookie record. In 1995 he broke Ruth's season record, established 75 years before, for highest home-run percentage; his career percentage is second only to Ruth's. Besides, his four missiles against the Florida Marlins last week averaged an astral 469 ft., which is greater even than the circumference of his biceps. With or without supplements, McGwire is pure protein power: casein...
...Rock, Con Air) do testosterrific at the wickets. So this Dirty Dozen in outer space will get a rousing send-off. If there's a question, it's about instant deja vu. Armageddon will be the second film this year to star Bruce Willis, to deal with an astral collision--and to destroy the Chrysler building...
...outguess science? Movie moguls hope so, for there are two pricey epics hurtling toward theaters, both about huge chunks of astral matter on a collision course with Earth. There hasn't been such potentially profitable synergy between Hollywood and scare headlines since--well, since Primary Colors...
...punctum, Latin for puncture or point. It could be something as simple as the little smudge that is the comet Hale-Bopp, which was for a while the world's most celebrated dot. Since it was an ancient dot, and one that got around a lot, it shed an astral glamour wherever it appeared. Like the President or Sharon Stone, it made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside it. So we nominate Hale-Bopp as Punctum of the Year, a year in which matters large and small left people unexpectedly moved...
...definitely shows something on film that I think no one has seen before: an actual channeling of a spirit from the astral plane," she said...