Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuno stressed that this plan, which has not been discussed with the community, is not yet off the ground...
...know you, but you know me. You know me from the picture on the ID card you picked up off the ground a week ago at the end of Stats 100 class. You know me from using my card at the Greenhouse within 10 minutes after class ended, a little after noon, when better food could have been had for free anywhere else. That night you used my card to order a pizza, and then cleaned out the rest of my Board Plus on another noontime Greenhouse purchase the next...
Captain James Cook saw a lot of strange things when he was exploring Polynesia in 1769, but the virgins chewing kava brought him up short. After pulling the plant's root out of the ground, island girls worked it over in their mouths, reducing it to a pulp, then spit the whole mess into coconut milk. The mixture was then strained through fibers, collected in a bowl and consumed by the tribe at large. Cook's men found the practice distasteful, but what did they know? Kava, after all, had been a popular tonic in the South Seas...
...Indian art as a source of "primitive" authenticity came from museums and exhibitions in New York and was confirmed by other mentors he was acquiring, such as the painter John Graham. Even the sight of Hopi painters running colored sand through their hands to create a pattern on the ground below, so often proposed as the starting point of Pollock's drip painting, came to him not on a Southwestern mountaintop but inside MOMA, which had brought some Hopis to perform in Manhattan...
...elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that?s my attitude." Will he return to space yet again? Only if his wife, Annie, lets him, said the senator, and only if there were "some rising demand." Considering the trouble NASA is having getting the ISS off the ground, administrator Dan Goldin would no doubt love to stick Glenn in permanent orbit...