Word: spaceship
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Holub is less successful when he turns his hand to overt political commentary. The heading of the book's second section, "Trouble on Spaceship Earth," sounds like the title of a Discovery Channel special, and the subject matter is suspiciously similar. When Holub dispenses unqualified environmental advice and chastises trendy scientific theorists, his otherwise sparkling essays acquire the atmosphere of soapbox sermons. The otherwise pedestrian chapter is punctuated by a few gems, such as "What the Nose Knows," a Proustian reverie on the atavistic power of scent, and the powerful "Shedding Life," which might have been titled "Killing a Muskrat...
Naturally, the creatures' old nemesis, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), has been--literally--reincarnated, and her wit and toughness were not forgotten in the cloning. Nor did screenwriter Joss Whedon (of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) neglect to provide her with a spaceship of fools who refuse to believe her warnings of impending carnage. He has even given Ripley a soul sister (Winona Ryder) to bond with. O.K., she's a robot, but she's got a heart of gold as well as buns of steel...
...Electric Barbarella," on the Duran Duran scale, is a mixture of "View to a Kill" and "Girls on Film." In this song, the band pays hommage to their eponoymus roots--the '60s cult classic Barbarella which featured a seminude Jane Fonda (Barbarella) trapsing across galaxies in her fur-lined spaceship, trying to save the universe from the clutches of mad scientist Duran Duran. "Electric Barbarella" is the only song on the album in which the boys allow us to see the nonsensical verbiage which was smattered across their earlier records. Lines like, "Major Domo/Plastic Como/Barbarella" should say it all. This...
WASHINGTON: Is the Cassini probe, which heads for Saturn Monday, nothing more than a space-bound H-bomb? Despite the spaceship being laden with 72 pounds of highly toxic plutonium, the chances of a nuclear nightmare are actually quite remote. TIME science correspondent Jeffery Kluger reports that "Cassini's opponents have shown an extreme excess of caution. Dozens of spacecraft have flown with nuclear power sources, and so far, there have been no accidents...
Getting medical supplies into Bosnia is one thing, but getting a 40-ft. motorized lemon-disco-ball spaceship into Sarajevo is another. But U2 managed to pull it off--with the U.N.'s help--when the band, fulfilling a promise made by lead singer and honorary Bosnian citizen BONO, staged a full PopMart concert in the city, which doesn't even have running water 24 hours a day. "We offered them a scratch gig, a benefit concert, and they didn't want that. They wanted PopMart," says Bono. "They've a mad sense of humor." The concert didn...