Word: alien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operators and demanded a voluntary plan of restraint and allocation. Johnson might have overdone it, mused this fellow, but he would have been out ahead of the problem, leading the way. Such action in matters with a high psychological ingredient often staves off further complications. But it is an alien style for Carter, who still tries to lead by following...
...Pfeiffer's problems could be her idealism. According to a friend, "She always believed in making a better world. Corruption is totally alien to Jane, and she wants to clean it up right away. She's a nun." Says another source: "I have the feeling that she thinks television is a dirty business, period, and she has to save us from ourselves by cleaning house." Another opinion is that her IBM training will be of limited use at NBC. Says a former executive at a TV production company: "Jane Pfeiffer is a virgin who comes...
This is not to disparage the band as a set of Who-parrots. They displayed coolness and professionalism throughout the performance, surviving broken guitar strings early in the show and a series of minor technical mishaps, possibly induced by the alien setting...
Klassen, 35, a mechanic and part owner of a gas station in Seminole, Texas (pop. 7,000), is an illegal alien from Mexico. But he is different from the hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who annually sneak across the border. Klassen is a Mennonite, one of 650 members of the reclusive religious sect who settled in the dusty plains country in the spring of 1977. Through a combination of bad advice and their own gullibility, the law-abiding Mennonites have since found themselves stranded on the wrong side...
MANY ARTISTS and writers have made the peculiar elusive quality of the Australian land the center of their work. Writers like Patrick White, painters like Sidney Nolan, have celebrated the passive hostility of a continent completely alien and unimaginably ancient. Until recently, there has been no Australian cinema. Peter Weir is one of its pioneers. With the assistance of the South Australian film Corporation, recently established by a culturally alert state Labor government, Weir made Picnic at Hanging Rock. Well-received at the Cannes film Festival in 1976, the film has only recently been released here following the success...