Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe the media is not to blame. Maybe journalists don't really cultivate the crops so attentively, and the crops simply sprout like weeds in the nation's garden. Simpson killed his wife and went on a low-speed chase. Clinton fooled around and lied about it, and the independent counsel insisted on finding out about his transgressions. Such weeds are too noxious to ignore, even if journalists would rather nurture some other crop...
While Smith says NAAFA advocates healthy foods and exercise, you couldn't find a jumping jack or a bean sprout at the march. But 1) they were out in the healthy California sun and 2) there was nothing to eat but a few cookies...
Dubious or not as a triumph of foreign policy, the canal has functioned perfectly for most of the century, and still does so to the honor of our technological reputation, although its control has reverted to the country T.R. allowed to sprout alongside, like a glorified right...
...Earth waiting to be revived." And its time is coming. Six billion years from now, as the Sun expands outward in Elvis-like death throes and Earth and Mars have long been incinerated, Titan will enter its spring. Its surface temperature will creep above freezing, and life may indeed sprout -- giving the new organisms about 500 million years to evolve and achieve space travel before they, too, are engulfed in flames...
Sewell, a Pre-Raphaelite hunk who also shines in the sumptuous new Dangerous Beauty, flashes a sullen magnetism here. But the playing is not the thing; the play of images is. In this city--part Moderne, part Magritte, part Manhattan collapsed onto itself--houses sprout like tropical flowers; office buildings magically morph in a technique that might be called Virtual Realty. You have to watch carefully, for this is not an ingratiating film. It drops you into a foreign landscape without guidebook or translator. It is as cool and distant as the planet the Strangers come from. But, Lord...