Word: suck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works; the triteness of the plot renders this movie awfully comforting; everything always come out okay in the end: candied apples and lollipops for the good, dungeons and dragon-tails for the wicked. We don't really pay upwards of eight dollars to be squeezed into itchy seats or suck up five dollar watered-down Diet Cokes for the clever lines or the skimpy fashions. Instead, we want the oddly satisfying feeling that wondrous, elusive, ephemeral joy--okay, okay, at least a prom date--does come...
...upper atmosphere. An Atlantic storm begins its life when high cumulus clouds gather over warm waters, often off the west coast of Africa. These clouds become a circular mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds and a concentrated area of low pressure that surrounds a spiraling, eerily calm eye. Powerful, counterclockwise winds pick up speed as they move over and feed...
...live in concert, it was difficult for me to determine whether he was all hype hiding behind a veneer of legend and recording technology. The question was never whether his heart was healthily thumping away, rather, very pragmatically, if I saw him in concert, was he going to suck? And therein lies the peculiarity of affection: it fears the possibility of change. For our purposes, that would result if the familiar image of good Dylan will be destroyed and replaced by a Dylan who sucks...
...just say that Dylan didn't suck...
...plants, says Cronin, are located in exactly the wrong part of the river--the broad, shallow heart of the estuary that serves as a nursery for striped bass, bay anchovies and American shad. The plants suck in water with great force; Indian Point alone uses a million gallons a minute. Fish small enough to slip through the meshes are killed at once. Larger fish are impaled on the screens and killed or maimed. Riverkeeper has forced Indian Point to install $25 million worth of fish-saving equipment, and in 1994 the group successfully sued to make the Environmental Protection Agency...