Word: wetnessing
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...drank the water could grow corn in his stomach. You know all this, and yet you are unprepared for the Delta, otherworldly and flat, the best place to grow cotton on this earth, once a hellish jungle, cleared by the backbreaking labor of slaves and sharecroppers. It's a wet western Kansas, a beautiful, flat, fertile window...
...busy flashing the V sign to passing cars, while at the same time combing confetti out of his brown hair and swigging orange Gatorade. Something has to give, and it's the Gatorade, which Fox sloshes all over his lap. He resigns himself to the wet mess and goes back to showing the V to a line of people waiting in the rain for a bus, as if his political life depends on every minute, every vote. And it does...
Time was when the solar system had two watery worlds. Directly next door to the warm, wet, loamy Earth was the warm, wet, loamy Mars, both planets sloshing with oceans and running with rivers--and both possibly teeming with life. Billions of years ago, however, the low-gravity Mars had both its air and water leak away, causing the planet to become the dead, freeze-dried place it is today...
...Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will get wet...
...Revisions of average annual economic growth predictions, from 2.7 percent to 3 percent for each of the 10 years, beefed up the numbers by almost an even trillion. And the surplus is based, as usual, on pipe-dream budget numbers, but then again, nobody's interested in being a wet blanket...