Word: europa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search for evidence of life in the solar system has led researchers to a new satellite--Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons...
...Galileo spacecraft, sent out by NASA on October 18, 1989 to explore Jupiter and its surrounding moons, has detected proof of organic compounds on two of Jupiter's moons--Callisto and Ganymede. It is likely to find it on Jupiter's other two large moons--Europa...
...hard to say what went wrong. Possibly the director, Agnieszka Holland, was simply overwhelmed by these very potent performers, unable to discipline their work. Possibly the fact that English is her second language (she is Polish and the creator of the very powerful Europa Europa) rendered her impervious to, or nervous about, Jamesian nuance...
...tied up two museum guards and dismantled the security system. They left with 13 objects, including two certified masterworks--Vermeer's The Concert and Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Strangely, the robbers chose not to lift the museum's most prized piece, Titian's Rape of Europa...
...that this "responsibility" demands a complete fidelity to the source novel. Holland's characteristic quirks and odd-ball sense of humor--in Europa Europa, she made a character's foreskin a consistent source of laughs--resist any firm allegiance to an inherited script. "For me it is more playful to make somebody else's material," she affirms; it allows her to "concentrate on the interpretation more [than] having to create everything from scratch...