Word: spaceship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residential glass tower with hanging gardens at the other. Other proposals included a zig-zag span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into the sky and an organic tube in fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look from the air like "a giant phallus...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: After spending $3 billion on just eight space flights a year, NASA officials have decided to let the free market trim the budget for them. On Tuesday, they announced Lockheed Martin as the winner of a "bake-off" to develop America's new spaceship, the first redesign since the space shuttle project began in 1972. Lockheed, which will conduct unmanned test flights of its triangle-shaped craft in 1999, will receive just $900 million to develop the new X-33 craft, leaving most of the financial risk to the contractor, and eventually to investors. The three companies...
...festival has always had a healthy sense of its mission--still does, as indicated by three billboards promoting the doomsday summer thriller Independence Day. NO WARNING, announces the first sign; NO NEGOTIATIONS, reads the second, which shows an alien spaceship hovering over the Riviera; finally, as the spaceship obliterates all sunlight, the legend says, NO CANNES. You have to admire a festival that can imagine no worse catastrophe than its own disappearance...
...cute medieval dragon who breaks into Alcatraz. Psycho groupie Robert De Niro tracks Flipper all the way to Alaska. Schwarzenegger takes the Brady Bunch into Witness Protection. Danny DeVito and Shaquille O'Neal--twins! Bill Murray goes bowling with his pet elephant. A tornado spits a giant spaceship onto the White House lawn and out steps the most destructive alien force the world has ever known: Jim Carrey...
...goad to the moviegoers' want-see. When a trailer works, it can give its film the hint of blockbuster. The Independence Day spot has done that and more. Its shots of citizens staring up at an ominous spacecraft became famous so quickly that it inspired a rival promo: a spaceship lands and disgorges the Brady Bunch for A Very Brady Sequel...