Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read that right. For to shatter the mighty meteor, a hydrogen bomb must be sunk deep into its core. That means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this...
...other day in the dining hall I saw an animal--an overgrown, grotesque beast covered with tangled dark hair, sharp teeth dripping with saliva and long brittle nails evocative of Freddie Kreuger. As I watched him prowl around the dining hall, a hollow hungry look on his face (he must have forgotten his ID card), I wondered why no one else noticed him. Deciding to ignore his foreboding presence, I swiped my card, filled my plate full of chicken fingers and sat down, determined to read my newspaper in peace...
Former commissioner MacMillan contends that Panama has badly neglected the military bases, ports and other facilities that have been placed in its charge, and shows reporters photos of abandoned Panama Railroad cars overgrown with grass and tropical vines. The railroad was handed over to Panama in 1979, and after falling into disuse, is now being privatized by a Kansas City, Mo., firm...
...KEEP OUT sign that only the occasional rabbit and passing deer will see. A few feet away, the garden that Ted Kaczynski once tended so carefully has gone to ruin; the red bicycle that he rode four miles down a dirt road into town lies in pieces, rusting and overgrown with weeds. In the town of Lincoln, Mont., no one talks much about the ex-neighbor, the Unabomber suspect. Only strangers ask about him. But two weeks ago, two strangers showed up at the small strip of grocery stores, churches and cafes along State Route 200, and they had questions...
...trip into Oliver Stone's brain. It's a jungle in there, luscious, overgrown, drenched in sensuality and high seriosity, alive with death. The Vietnam of his mind is "waisthigh in vegetation," as Stone writes in his novel A Child's Night Dream (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $21.95). "Green with...