Sputniks

In their song “Sputniks and Mutniks,” for example, Ray Anderson and the Homefolks sing in jest about satellites and Soviet space dogs “flying everywhere.”

Mr. Mendiola bought pigs and hundreds of chickens for the Sputniks’ Christmas feast last month.

In the Sputniks, getting into a fistfight will be punished with five lashes, and if someone draws blood, that number jumps to 15 or 20.

The Met’s crystal chandeliers, which have come to be called “sputniks” for their space-age starburst design, are among the most popular features of the theater.

Steeped in a mythos of Sputniks, spooks and classroom shelter drills, this cult film is an animated feature about a 9-year-old boy who finds, saves and protects the humongous robot that drops from the sky — educating him with his comic books.