Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fragrance but a lethal gas. It envelops and consumes us; it is all the air we breathe. It should make for an ideal film subject. But moviemakers rarely know what to do with obsession. They make it trivial, cartoonish. A superfiend itches to blow up the planet -- big hairy deal. An id-monster like Freddy Krueger dices and slices kids as they sleep. Zzzzzz...
...real crime bill...recognizes if social programs prevented crimes, this would be the safest spot on the planet...grabs violent criminals by the throat, puts them in prison...and stops building prisons like Holiday Inns." --Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), likely presidential candidates in 1996, quoted in the Boston Globe on Nov. 14, 1994. Gramm has clearly taken to practicing his rhetoric in preparation for tough debates against heavyweight contenders such as former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
...mostly predictable world of stump talk, there is nothing quite like Gingrich's messianic oration. He describes a world beset by atrocities from the villages of Bosnia to the suburbs of New Jersey. "If we are not careful, our children could inherit a dark and bloody planet in the 21st century," he warns. Then he offers a vision of salvation and redemption. "I came here tonight to recruit you," he concludes. "To recruit you to the cause of freedom and to the cause of your country." When he finishes, there's more than just loud and sustained cheering. There...
...fools you, you feel stupid, show's over ... It's like, 'Here's a quarter. Now it's gone. You're a jerk."' And on people picking up dog poop: "If aliens are watching this through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge...
Like an out-of-shape fighter, O'Rourke chooses to pummel stiffs and has- beens. He wastes pages going after 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Planet, a quickly forgotten by-product of 1992 Earth Day hype. When he does take on a substantial foe, like Vice President Al Gore, he becomes almost hysterical, lumping Gore with Nazis and other totalitarians for observing that the world may be forced to respond to the global environmental crisis in a "collective, coordinated...