Word: alien
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power to force Quinta to respond or to destroy it, but such a victory would constitute a defeat. One crew member tells the captain, "Whatever you do -- if you do not retreat -- will result in a fiasco." ( The captain has grown increasingly pessimistic: "Any detailed study of an alien technology was futile. Its fragments, like pieces of a broken mirror, would not yield a coherent picture; they were the indistinct result, only, of the thing that had shattered...
...film Alien Prey features a bloodstained vampire who feasts on a dead woman's entrails through a hole in her stomach. Make Them Die Slowly proudly proclaims 24 SCENES OF BARBARIC TORTURE, including a scene in which a man slices a woman in half. Flesh Feast reveals "body maggots" that consume live human beings, pulling the skin off their faces before working their way down...
AUSTRALIA is the land of koalas, kangaroos and golden beaches. Social unrest seems alien to the territory. But in Sydney in the early '20s, D.H. Lawrence found budding revolution rather than peace, and his experiences inspired Kangaroo, an autobiographical novel about his dissatisfaction with Australian politics...
...stamp out the incentive for aliens to enter the U.S. illegally, the law cracks down on businesses that offer them jobs. Beginning June 1, every employer in America, from the Beverly Hills housewife who takes on a Mexican gardener to the Lower Manhattan garmentmaker who hires dozens of Chinese seamstresses, must become a kind of INS agent. Employers must demand such documents as a U.S. passport or birth certificate, proof of naturalization or a resident-alien card, and then complete an I-9 verification form for each employee...
...months after June 1, employers will risk only a citation for any violations. After that, they can be hit with penalties that range from $250 to $2,000 for each illegal worker hired. For repeated offenses, the fine will rise to as much as $10,000 for each illegal alien. Employers, however, cannot be fined for illegals hired before Nov. 6, 1986, the date on which the bill was passed...