Word: maidens
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...telephone pole-sized commercial rocket that launched Monday from New Mexico had a lot more riding on it than just the high school experiments and cremated remains that were to be hurtled into space for paying customers. UP Aerospace of Connecticut heralded the maiden launch of its SpaceLoft XL rocket as the beginning of a new era of affordable public access to space...
...Some parts of his return voyage to his father's hometown were not that different from his maiden one. In a modest, tin-roofed house in a nearby clearing dotted with mango trees, Obama, 45, and his wife and daughters, Malia and Sasha, visited Sarah - "Granny" - and other relatives and shared a quick meal of chicken, porridge and cabbage. Obama told reporters gathered outside the house that he had apologized to his grandmother for all the attention she had received "because of me." "He's gone a long way," says Auma Obama, a social worker in London, who accompanied...
...Sydney Opera House until June 25, the moon watches over the gentle unfolding of life, from kava ceremony to funeral song. In many Pacific cultures, the moon is also seen as a female deity, and in Vula womanhood is worshiped just as fully, from the languorous flick of a maiden's hair to the ribald jokes of a group of washerwomen, whose laughter becomes the ebb and flow of lagoon life...
...maiden voyage of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ (HPT) 158th production, “Some Like it Yacht.” Written by Josh M. Brener ’07 and Samuel Gale Rosen ’06, both seasoned veterans of HPT, and with music composed by Ben E. Green ’06, the new show maintains its reputation for high caliber wit, music, and entertainment as the oldest acting troupe in drag. Produced by Mary Kate A. Burke ’06 and Ashley A. Zalta ’07 and directed by professional Tony Parise...
...it’s a free pass into all sorts of nonsense that doesn’t add up.”Blithely risking blasphemy, she describes the solemn scene where her character sacrifices anthropomorphic messiah Aslan as “a full-on rock concert of the Iron Maiden variety.”And Swinton is even less reverent when she talks about her reasons for taking the role. Mostly, she says, she was hoping to help secure funding for other projects she’s planning, like a film based on the life of icy, heroin-addled German...