Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oxygen-depleting processes, especially organic decay. Indeed, the vast populations of algae that smothered the Precambrian oceans generated tons of vegetative debris, and as bacteria decomposed this slimy detritus, they performed photosynthesis in reverse, consuming oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that traps heat and helps warm the planet...
Like raccoons, wild turkeys are not really a wilderness animal. They are an edge-of-civilization critter. Deep snow and deep forest defeat them. They gobble insects in the warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...
...innocence of Miranda (Carrie Preston) should warm the spirit; the treachery of Antonio (Nestor Serrano) should chill the veins. Yet emotional extremes--hot and cold--are missing here. Wolfe allows Preston to play Miranda as a panting, boy-mad, '90s adolescent. Reared on an island inhabited only by her father and a pair of spirits, where has she acquired her repertoire of salacious smirks, hotfooted flouncings, pouting moues...
SELF-POSSESSED AS USUAL, ALMA POWELL IGNORED THE little chair that had been set up for her onstage and took her place at her husband's side. She looked at him not with a stagy gaze of adoration but with the warm, sometimes amused expression that often flows from her blue-green eyes. She fielded questions easily, even had fun cutting off one of Sam Donaldson's follow-ups. But more revealing than anything she said was the superb little hip check she used to push Powell aside so she could step up to a question--a gesture so swift...
...pressures of being the general's wife. Her family and friends sensibly reject the notion. "This is a medical condition that flares up and gets treated, the way a bad back gets treated," says Michael. "It's not central to her life." She is warm and outgoing, an attentive listener. She knows everybody but has just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security apparatus: women married to men who can't talk about their work. When Colin retired, these wives got together and threw a bash...