Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They realize the ambition Streeton described in a letter to Roberts, his painting buddy: "I fancy large canvases all glowing and moving in the happy light, and others bright decorative and chalky and expressive of the hot trying winds and the slow immense summer." But the immensity doesn't dwarf or trivialize the works of man, and this skill at conveying what is pleasurable in landscape is part of the key to Streeton's unfading popularity in his own country...
...Keck I telescope in Hawaii, it's also the closest planet to our solar system ever found. There isn't another until you look 35 light-years -- 5.9 trillion miles -- away. It's also only the twelfth planet discovered in the universe. Since it formed around a red dwarf such as Gliese 876, the most common type of star in the universe, astronomers suspect there could be many more planets floating in solar neighborhoods near ours...
...Workin' 9 to 5. Your summer job kicks ass. And even if it doesn't, it has to be more relaxing than your existence as a student--you'll finally meet that dwarf, the 40 hour week...
...worthy and hilarious use/abuse of the public poll is underway on the People magazine Web site. Howard Stern, rightfully calling into question the idea that 50 actors, models and other celebrities' pictures do anything for national morale, has started a campaign of his own--for Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf. And Stern and friends are succeeding: Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf, is so popular that he has gone from write in to actually being on the ballot. Not to mention the fact that he leads the next contender, Leonardo DiCaprio, by 153,872 votes...
Both People and Time are now in the indelicate position of honoring their votes or asserting editorial control, and we at Dartboard have a bad feeling about what will happen. Still, it is fun while it lasts: go cheer on Hank the Dwarf and start purchasing that Ataturk memorabilia...