Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annulment of his marriage, guitarist Izzy Stradlin's arrest for urinating in an airplane galley, and Rose's arrest last November after allegedly hitting a female neighbor on the head with a wine bottle (the charges were later dropped), you have the makings of a mythology that Keith Moon would envy...
...place where parents imagined that the wickedness of paganism converged with the self-indulgence of childhood, as if the Satyricon were being played out in the aisles of Toys "R" Us. Judging from a few of Leibovitz's early pictures -- like one of rock drummer Keith Moon trysting with his groupies -- those parents had a point. Rock had become the gateway through which the mysterious Other -- dark, hedonistic, erotically charged -- would find its way out into mass culture...
...five different wilderness ecosystems: a desert, savannah, rain forest, marsh and 7.6-m-deep (25-ft.-deep) "ocean" complete with coral reef. The experiment, seven years and $100 million in the making, has been hailed as the most exciting scientific project since the effort to put man on the moon...
...Lindbergh's flight was scientifically important?" he asks. "There was no new land discovered, and if you asked at the time, people might have said the development of the eggbeater was of more value. But the flight ended up stimulating aviation." As for the trip to the moon, "all we really got out of that was a handful of dirt," he notes, "but it gave us new insights into the way we view the world." So bon voyage, Biospherians...
Many of their fetching schemes -- Toyota's inflatable car; Izuzu's moon-unit Expresso minivan; Michael Ma's Tatanka, a sort of 21st century Beetle -- will prove too impractical, too expensive, too weird. But the great achievement of the new California design colony is that such cars are being imagined and prototypes built. After decades of nothing but uninspired nips and tucks, of corporate blandness, of timid styling, automobile designers are being allowed to design again...