Word: bug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weapons around Libya in a battered turquoise Volkswagen Beetle, which is a popular Libyan National Museum exhibit. So it was not surprising that when Gaddafi said goodbye to his visitor and climbed into the passenger seat of a waiting car, it was a brand-new, metallic blue VW bug...
...Dale Earnhardt of computer animators, the first name in a mammothly successful form of popular art he pretty much created, beginning with his short Luxo Jr. in 1986. From the start, he's been the soul of Pixar Animation: he directed its first three hits (Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2) and executive-produced its next three (Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles). Early this year, when Disney bought Pixar--basically paying about $7 billion for Lasseter's brain--he became boss of the grand old animation studio as well as the most revered modern...
...among the Cheneys might carry on in the family business? I can totally imagine Liz [her sister, a senior State Department official] running. I think Liz would be a great candidate. Myself? I did not get the political bug...
Then the injury bug hit. Brown strained a hamstring against Penn. Sparkplug Brendan Byrne tore his meniscus. Slugger Josh Klimkiewicz hurt his elbow in a collision with Brown’s Steve Daniels...
...Burkle found his passion for creative work at an early age, experimenting with various visual arts. Discovered in fifth grade by a teacher who, intrigued by his acting potential, shifted him into another class so he would eligible for a school play, he was bitten by the stage bug early. He actively participated in his high school drama program, despite its limited resources. Plays were staged in the gym, where “we had one blue light for when it was dark—or sad.” During Burkle’s freshman fall at Harvard...