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...embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which went for expenses), The Voyage already ranks as one of the Met's most extravagant epics...
...Bush retracted a plan to terminate an expensive space rocket engine program in order to save jobs--and votes--in the South...
Germany accused the British of being bad Europeans for harboring suspicions about their Community comrade. Then it validated the British suspicions by planning a major celebration of the Nazi invention of the V-2 rocket, which caused so much destruction and psychological distress in Britain at the end of World War II (after howls of protest, Germany decided to cancel the "celebration...
...dates successively with the same three women, then appear on the show to guess which ones made various comments about them. The remarks are suggestive sound bites like "He gasped in amazement when I slurped down that beef" or "A few sparks, a big thrust and his mighty rocket started to rise." The real meaning, however, is usually banal; the comments, no matter how innocent (the beef was filet mignon; the rocket, fireworks on the beach), have been reprocessed by the show's writers for maximum double-entendre effect...
Bagnoli is talking about the moon. But hedoesn't have a rocket to take him there...