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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...minute film, Wallace concocts a daft labor-saving robot--meant to serve dinner or overcome a burglar or produce Christmas cards or vacuum up cracker crumbs--while Gromit watches in mute exasperation or buries his snout in a favorite book (one is Men Are from Mars, Dogs Are from Pluto). Something usually goes explosively wrong, but that doesn't dampen either Wallace's enthusiasm or Gromit's obligation to restore the status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dog Bytes | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...There, that one could be from Pluto,” she would...

Author: By Anat Maytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Sept. 11 Victims | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...evening sky in April and May will host the five inner worlds of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The early morning sky will be visited by the outer worlds of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...

Author: By Lesley W. Ma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Astrophysics Center To Host Stargazing | 4/10/2002 | See Source »

...concert began with Stravinsky’s Orpheus, a ballet in three scenes based on classical mythology. The story focuses on Orpheus, who mourns the death of Eurydice, but then convinces Pluto to let him be reunited with her in the land of Hades. Orpheus neglects to follow Pluto’s rules and Eurydice dies on the way out of the underworld, while Orpheus is also killed upon returning to earth. Stravinsky wrote the ballet in Hollywood in 1947 and first conducted it with the BSO in 1949. The melancholy of the tale is reflected in the minor dissonances...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ballet, Beethoven and the Birds | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

Eddie Murphy will head to the moon this month for a serious rescue mission. He must save Pluto Nash, a movie in danger of collapsing under its own inertia. Nash, a sci-fi comedy featuring Murphy as a lunar-nightclub owner, wrapped a year ago, and was originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

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