Word: alien
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...unpinned herself from the scarlet A (for American Idol winner) that nearly doomed her career before it started. She works with strong producers, picks crisp, up-tempo songs that mine a slender emotional vein (to summarize: Why did you leave me, you jerk?) and sings them with an understatement alien to most of her peers. It's an (almost) guiltless pleasure...
...studious mien, not the best posture. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying to win a chaotic baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his patented chicken dance. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles, Streisand jokes and familial reconciliation. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which extends Park?s Oscar-winning stop-motion short films to feature length, is about a creature that terrorizes townsfolk by eating their prize vegetables. With their usual precision and fey wit, Park and his Aardman colleagues...
...form asking for my name, date of birth, phone number, mailing address, and of course, Social Security Number (SSN). I explained to the cashier that I did not have a SSN because I am a foreign student, but she was absolutely clueless as to how to deal with this alien customer. Out of frustration and impatience, I paid the full price knowing that every American customer could have paid 15 percent less. The Harvard International Office (HIO) website offered little assistance. The SSN section of the website read, “If you are confronted with a situation where...
Video game heroes have always had a variety of nemeses to battle, from Bowser to Nazis to alien invaders. Now, however, a far greater evil waits: Satan.“Ominous Horizons,” a new Christian computer game that challenges players to recover Gutenberg’s stolen Bible from Satan so that “the Word of God will be made available to all.” Video games are only the latest media form in which Christians are playing an increasingly vocal role. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch...
...were supposed to be more sexy roles for women over 50. Oh, of course not. Never. It requires somebody who's a good writer who wants to write about that subject. Who is gonna do that? George Lucas? I don't think so. I'd have to be an alien, a sexy, older alien...