Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blown Away" is the single worst film I have ever seen in a theatre. It's true that even lesser works such as "The Cutting Edge" have been rented and watched in my presence. And since I have only been on the planet 20 years, so I will probably see worse, barring a tragic dismemberment of director Stephen Hopkins, which if you are unlucky enough to see "Blown Away," you will learn is a consummation devoutly to be wished...
Trackers of such things said that 1 in every 5 of all citizens of the planet watched the ceremonies and the action here in Chicago, meaning that 1 billion pairs of eyes fixed me as close to the President of the United States as, say, Charles is to Di on a good day, spiritually. American TV personality Oprah Winfrey gave the greeting "Hello, world," followed by four songs about love and stuff from Diana Ross, then a peacockish revue of the 24 countries competing in the 52 matches being held in America, then a splendidly brief welcome by Bill Clinton...
...string of hopes started with the despair I felt of that war and ran the gamut of existence form women's issues, racial issues and the preservation of a habitable planet to the technical ontological and theological questions in which I believed I would find answers to everything else. To protect and extend the chain...
...righteous zeal, he's the angry prophet of the airwaves -- Howard Beale with a bottle of Evian. On his new late-night HBO show, Miller delivers well-tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject, why do I even know Tito Jackson's name, for Christ's sake? . . . The irony of Andy Warhol's statement is that many of our present-day celebrities can't even fill the 15, folks...
Twenty-one mountain-size comet fragments are speeding toward the giant planet. Their arrival in July could trigger the most spectacular celestial encounter ever seen in the solar system...