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...child was called Zowie Bowie - but only because there is an tantalizing connection between a song of the father and the film of the son. Bowie's Space Oddity, from 1969, takes its punning title from the Kubrick movie the year before. Released nine days before the Apollo 11 moon landing, and played by the BBC in its coverage of the event, it describes the communication of a lonely astronaut: "This is Major Tom to Ground Control... / Here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world./ Planet Earth is blue,/ And there's nothing...
...Tinkertoys because the estate tax might go to zero for just one year, in 2010, got a decent laugh. My conservative Christian material about how the New Testament would read if it were written by Congress also did well, although it was about as gutsy as going to the Apollo and doing uptight-white-people jokes. In fact, less gutsy, since uptight white people don't yank you off the stage with a cane...
...days ago, pop-culture website Liquid Generation launched a quirky, addictive video mash-up of the most iconic lines in American film history. Jumping between blockbusters like Airplane, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13 and There Will Be Blood, "100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds" may inspire you to update that stale Netflix queues. It can also double as a rapid-fire trivia game, offering viewers two seconds of material or less to name the movie in which the one-liner appears...
...Global Warming The House last week passed its version of landmark climate-change legislation, which the Senate is scheduled to pick up this summer. On his website, Franken declares his support for renewable energy: "I think we need a new 'Apollo project' - this time to fundamentally change our energy policy and end our reliance on foreign oil." But Franken will also be representing Minnesota: his website lists much longer and more detailed positions on agriculture. In the House, the rural caucus - big supporters of ethanol - was among the measure's biggest hurdles, and Franken is a big ethanol devotee. Though...
...morally outraged,” added Brendan C. Quinn ’12. But they were somewhat appeased when they learned of NASA’s reason for dubbing the component Tranquility. NASA chose to name Node 3 Tranquility because of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, which landed in the area of the moon known as the Sea of Tranquility, according to a NASA press release from Tuesday. Although the component was not named “Colbert,” NASA will call its new space treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill). The announcement...