Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make them susceptible to disease. The combination can be fatal, throwing off the delicate biological clock that allows the salmon to adapt miraculously from fresh to salt water once they get to the sea. The smolts that survive face a grisly threat: the majority end up ground to a pulp in the deadly turbines that create the cheapest electricity in the country...
...larger questions raised by Freejack is why Anthony Hopkins, fresh off his acclaimed performance as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, linked himself with the artless pulp of this film...
...military genius, our native American intelligence, proved itself again. One hundred hours and we beat those tricky camel jockeys to a pulp. And what was our military strategy based on? Football. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and his staff devised the plan, and called it a "Hail Mary," sending our troops around the western edge of the Iraqi emplacements and sneaking up on them from the back. The more appropriate football term would have been "end run," but American coaching got it right anyway...
While we're at it, we might as well make our well-paid servants lend a hand to anyone willing to shell out the big dough. Force Marty Feldstein to help millionaires with their taxes. Force Seamus Heaney to edit pulp best-sellers. Force Jeff "I'm too busy saving the world to talk to undergraduates" Sachs to clean up a country that has some money, dammit. Force Med School profs to perform celebrity plastic surgery...
...scrambling the political map of California. Traditional allies such as agriculture and big developers frequently find themselves at odds. Some environmental groups have aligned with cities against agricultural interests to try to break big farmers' stranglehold on water supplies. Others have joined forces with surfers to fight pollution from pulp-paper mills and with commercial fisherman to end logging practices that destroy watersheds...