Nostromo
Americannoun
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Nicholson says there was a team of people who policed placement of Semiotic Standard, the color-coded information symbols designed by Ron Cobb for the Nostromo spacecraft, on Maginot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
He was then hired by Ridley, because I think Ridley said, ‘I want the Millennium Falcon look for Nostromo.’
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
Instead, the dimly lit corridors of The Nostromo were just sets built at a studio near London.
From Fox News ● Oct. 15, 2021
Mr. Kotto played the engineer Parker, traveling on the spaceship Nostromo with an otherwise all-White crew that included Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt, who becomes the host for a parasitic alien.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021
Kurtz, Lord Jim, Razumov, Nostromo, Captain Whalley, Yanko Goorall, Verloc, Heyst, Gaspar Ruiz, Almayer: one and all they are destroyed and made a mock of by the blind, incomprehensible forces that beset them.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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