Word: ego
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this unease (about abnormal warming, about unnatural freezing) may express a sneaking self-absorption. Weather is connected to ego, I think - nature projects moods upon us, and we project back. It's a variation on this pattern: A man imagines that the world must be incomparably better or incomparably worse in his time than it was before he arrived on the planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make...
...Herzog, who committed to 13 episodes despite the show's cost (shot with a single camera for a more cinematic look, it costs about $1 million an episode, compared with at least $750,000 per half-hour sitcom). The producers launched a nationwide search for Boomer's megabrained alter ego and found Muniz on the second day. "We were distrustful because it happened so fast," Boomer says. "Frankie doesn't have those bad habits that most kid actors have. He has a great sense of timing and is also really honest...