Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...novelty of margaritagate wears off, the most beguiling question to emerge from Austin is not why Jenna Bush used a fake ID in a place where literally everyone knew her name, but why the Secret Service agents hanging out at Chuy's restaurant in their Hawaiian shirts didn't do anything to stop her. According to a Secret Service source, agents have specific instructions from the President and First Lady to turn a blind eye to the collegiate high jinks of the First Daughters. "It's not our job to be substitute parents," the source says. "Our function...
December 7, 1941, 7:55 A.M.: a low-flying Japanese plane zooms over the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It passes directly above a sandlot baseball field. The tail gunner waves at the kids below, warning them to take cover before bombs begin to fall. It's an extraordinary moment--a moviemaker's dream--and, as Socrates once observed of a far different subject, "it has the very great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction...
...monument to every techie's fantasy. The place is bristling with gadgetry. Apart from the usual household appliances and entertainment systems, there are webcams, motion sensors, and electronic photoframes - thin lcds where you can show off several photos at the same time from that Hawaiian holiday or switch pictures depending on who's visiting. Everything in the home seems to communicate with every other thing. You can watch TV on the computer, do e-mail on the TV screen, check the weather online from a portable webpad. You can control lighting, heat and security systems from the Internet...
...features a love triangle (between the very attractive Kate Beckinsale and hunks Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), shots of ships sliding perpendicularly into the sea, as well as awe-inspiring special effects; where the movie should really shine, is not only the imagery of flaming wreckage littering the Hawaiian landscape, but also the truly haunting sight of warplanes flying so close to the ground that baseball-playing kids and laundry-drying housewives must duck for cover. As the two leading men, Hartnett and Affleck (who character is ridiculously named Rafe) play childhood best friends who happen to be daredevil fighter...
...Reubens. After pleading no contest to a 1991 charge of indecent exposure at a porn theater he dropped into while visiting his parents in Florida, Reubens went into hiding for a month at the New Jersey compound of billionaire Doris Duke, whom he got to know through her Hawaiian neighbor Jim Nabors, whom he met through Charo, who had appeared on his kids' show, Pee-wee's Playhouse. Being Pee-wee Herman is even weirder than you think...