Word: alien
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passes for love nowadays might more properly be termed an alliance between men and women endlessly groping to "find themselves," each with their own "lifestyle." That a man might define himself with reference to a woman, and vice versa--and, by extension, with reference to a family--is an alien notion...
...group's other hostage are Robert Polhill, 53, of New York City; Jesse Turner, 39, of Boise, Idaho; and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, a native of India and resident alien in the United States...
...performance as Bessie. Her Machiavellian machinations to keep her family in line seem to have no motivation other than sheer perfidy, and when she does try to explain herself all she does is whine. One problem right off the bat is the Jewish dialect which seems like an alien tongue to most of the actors, as they try to wrap their mouths around convoluted phrases like "So bad I never imagined you could be!" One small complaint, only for purists, is that there is not one single Yiddish word uttered in the course of the play. Come on, Clifford, that...
...time that she needed Mexican citizenship to find work. In January 1984 Randall, by then divorced, returned on a visa to the U.S. and married an American, from whom she is now separated. In October 1985 an INS official in El Paso rejected her application for permanent resident alien status. Ordinarily, Randall would be eligible to remain because her parents and two of her four children are U.S. citizens. But the immigration official decided that she had to leave. The reason: "Her writings go far beyond mere dissent, disagreement with, or criticism of the U.S. or its policies...
Secretary of State George Shultz went on the road last week to defend American policy toward Nicaragua. During a speech in Guatemala before the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, he offered little hope for a negotiated settlement. "Foreign intervention in the form of alien ideologies and foreign cadres -- from Cuba, the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Viet Nam and Libya -- is at this very moment promoting instability and violence in Central America," said Shultz. "The only road to peace and stability is to eliminate that alien intervention." He asserted that "there would be a great...