Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them married, trying to figure out a way to make a nice dollar in 1995. They already had good jobs, but they wanted something all their own, and being sharp lads, they knew this much: 1) good love is hard to find; and 2) the Internet has shrunk the planet, opening up a world of romantic options...
...sailor, explorer, inventor, best-selling author, prizewinning filmmaker, passionate environmentalist and canny businessman. Instantly recognizable by his pipe, red cap and gaunt silhouette, Jacques-Yves Cousteau--a.k.a. "Captain Planet"--was arguably the century's best known, most popular Frenchman. For generations of scuba divers--and millions of armchair explorers--he created a crystal-clear window for the unseen world beneath the waves...
...wags a finger at him. Then on to the bedroom, where the President is talking to George and Hillary while getting dressed, making George uncomfortable. And then--nothing. Why put us in these rooms if you're not going to shed light on the most mystifying marriage on the planet? Still, it's this breach of confidence that bothers Carville most. "Even if I were in Starr's bedroom," he says, "I'd respect his privacy. I wouldn't tell you about...
...everyone agreed, one of the planet's best dinner companions. At once sardonic and curiously boyish, he was both autodidact and polymath--his curiosity and his information equally boundless. To a film critic he might recommend some recondite movie that he had caught but that the latter had carelessly missed. To a filmmaker desperately behind schedule, he might offer to share his state-of-the-art editing suite to speed things up. To a harried studio executive, he might provide an evening of baseball nostalgia, centered on the New York Yankees, beloved since Kubrick's Bronx boyhood. Maybe Warren Beatty...
...which was my forced science--nothing to do with the book--but it became almost the most important class in the book...Aisling is fascinated with evolving into something--what humans will become next. If we've come this far from fish, if we don't destroy the planet, blow it up in the meantime, we might end up as something as strange as fish is to humans as humans is to what...