Word: plopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was no news to report but that it was terribly sad, terribly sad, which is not journalism exactly, but there was a rightness about it. The TV anchors and correspondents are like old uncles and aunts who come to the house after a death in the family and plop down in the living room and say, "I just can't believe it somehow." You don't expect them to be cogent; you are just grateful for their company...
Between shoots, Kidman, a former high school debater in her native Australia, would plop down in her bathrobe and curlers on the floor of Kubrick's book-cluttered office to talk politics. "I challenged him, and he loved it," she says. "It was great to work with someone you can have deep discussions with. He could alter the way you see the world...
...Disney's Typhoon Lagoon, the Universal designers built a virtual water park into I.O.A.; half the rides take you to the edge of wetness and over. The Jurassic Park River Adventure plummets your boat past a snarly T rex and down a steep sluice to land with a cascading plop 80 ft. below. Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges take visitors on a whirling whitewater ride where you will get soaked. (The ride guides will tell you it's practically illegal to remove your footwear. Do it anyway and save yourself a day's walk in soggy sneakers.) You also...
...still haven't found the right gift,though, you may need to head on back to HiddenSweets or Christy's. Both stores sell"Grow-A-Date" for a few dollars. Plop your Romeoor Juliet in a cup of water, and it expands justenough to resemble the perfect date--flowersincluded...
...used much more frequently. You only get 50s and 100s from your aunt on your birthday. Once you get one, you either hold onto it or you deposit it. You use the $20 all the time. A month or so ago, you would go to the music store and plop down a $20-bill to pay for a CD. Now, you must fear the clerk will say, "Mister, we don't accept Monopoly money...