Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month or so after Global Surveyor is launched, a sister ship, the Mars Pathfinder, will follow it into space. Like NASA's unmanned Viking ships of the 1970s, Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling...
...film is sensuously shot and soundtracked, with a fevered violence of color and angle. The shots of the yacht on the open sea show the true brutality of blue and white when sea, ship, and sky seem to continually lunge against each other and fight for dominance of the screen. Views of Italy are made to seem as craven and far from redemption as the protagonists themselves. There seems a matter-of-fact weariness even to the children at play in the street, as if to sense that their lives will never lose this frivolous emptiness, that the games will...
...historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently by, and we see the waterspout of a coming tornado. There will be no rescue. The painting refers back to other images of marine disaster, notably Turner's Slave Ship and Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, in an image of total pessimism. This, Homer says, is what the voyage of life comes down to: hanging on and facing down your death when all hope is gone and there are no witnesses. It is a grim and hard-won vision...
...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that will take you from the Old State House to museums and landmarks along the Boston waterfront including the Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium (T: Aquarium, on the blue line) and the Boston Tea Party Ship...
...really wanted to know what was on the other side, then we would sail our ship. We would have Happy Hour every hour and it wouldn't be predicated upon alcohol. We would hike in the Andes mountains full time, or spend our total effort working to help the indigent in Calcutta, or continually enjoying roasted goat in Rome...