Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nevertheless true that the very processes of cognitive reflection, scientific experimentation, psychological examination, biblical exegesis and sundry other academic pursuits, are attempts to discover, if not logic, at least meaning in the world. Nothing in itself needs explanation in order to exist or live: individuals, societies, the planet itself do not require guide plans, and if they are subject to the programs by knowledgeable consultants, they consistently fail to live up to set standards. Columnists, too, are guilty of the sin of coherence--they attempt to make meaning of the world on a daily basis. They tell you why Bill...
...going to sleep before midnight and waking up at six to go to work. After a while, a friend directed me to The Atomic Clock, a cesium-based timekeeper maintained in a laboratory somewhere in France and used by scientists worldwide as the standard-setter for time on our planet...
That's the kind of food I look for when I do myfield work. To them its just ordinary stuff . Itreminds me of what I grew up with in Iowa. Myfather had his summers free, so what we did washave the biggest garden in the planet, and I wasthe laborer. We had heavenly sweet corn, andvarious kinds of beans and things like that--justordinary food we took for granted. I look back atthat as literally food from the goods...
...disappointed. Here I was all excited about that Giant Killer Asteroid streaking toward our planet. For a few delicious hours, cataclysmic devastation on an unparalleled scale hung in the air, perhaps the end of civilization as we know it. It happened to the dinosaurs; now it would happen to us! Then--bam!--the rug was pulled out from under...
...discounts the scene where Martha sits weeping on the kitchen floor looking, as a friend comments, "Like somebody stole her food." The novelty of having a movie whose main characters are women is marred, because the plot is channeled through some late-Bond era fantasy of a planet full of women who all want to serve and protect their men. Schaech's non-essential role in the movie is not a triumph for women everywhere--it's more of a slap in the face. Can women only shine in their protracted pursuit of the male species, courting their love even...