Word: looping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Florence On in races seven through nine, took home a 12th place finish.“The wind was really shifty this weekend in both direction and pressure,” Santangelo said. “There were a few races out there that really threw me for a loop.”Their B division counterparts matched the A division’s 12th place efforts, as junior skipper Alex Bick and junior crew Ali Beyer competed for the Crimson...
...favorite Star Trek episode is called "Cause and Effect." Here's the setup: the crew members of the Enterprise (the Enterprise-D, since we're in Next Generation here) are trapped in a time loop. They repeat the same sequence of events over and over again. At the end of each loop, the Enterprise is destroyed in a catastrophic collision with another ship, and they go back to the beginning. But with a subtle difference: each time they go through the loop, it leaves behind dark trace memories, so the next time around, the crew is haunted by a sense...
...metaphor for the whole Star Trek franchise. Each new version - and to date we've had five Trek TV series and 10 Trek movies - repeats the same basic scenario, but each iteration is burdened more and more heavily by the past, and each one ends in collapse. Then the loop starts all over again, but with that sense of looming doom one notch darker. Even I, a fan, am surprised that Star Trek is still with us after 43 years...
...Spock and the rest of the original-series crew. It's like a Stanislavskian exercise, retroactively endowing the characters with a set of childhood memories (rather like the replicants in Blade Runner) that explain how they became who they are. (Captain, it appears we are caught in a time loop...
...clit was pulsing. I didn’t know quite what to do, and she could tell. She leaned forward and pointed to rubber dick and leather straps. “It’s like underwear,” she said. She tapped one leather loop that hung against the dildo. “Right leg.” She tapped the other. “Left leg. You tighten the waistband like a belt...