Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comet discovery; the first came just a month earlier) there was no reason to think it would be especially bright. But when professionals calculated the orbit, they realized that Hyakutake would be approaching to within a mere 9.3 million miles of Earth, only 40 times as distant as the moon...
...should feel a little ashamed, perhaps, that the entity we've feared for so long is just like us. That rock you skipped across the river last week might have been from Mars or the moon. The stranger you spoke to just yesterday might be a legal immigrant from last year or two centuries...
Written by John Patrick Shanley, whose other credits include "Moon-struck" and "Joe vs. the Volcano", "Four Dogs" opened to rave reviews in both New York and Los Angeles. And deservedly so, since it takes the worst stereotypes plaguing the film industry and weaves them into a complex web of machinations, as each character tries to manipulate the others into fulfilling his, or her, own desires. No one is above seduction, threats overt and covert, back-stabbing, or just plain simple bitchiness...
...Flew to the Moon...
...Yeah," replied the incredulous first-grader. "And my grandmother flew to the moon...