Word: alienable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others, Cliffs Notes are not as alien a concept. One Harvard senior used them while taking "Heroes," the ever-popular Core class. For him, the supplements left much to be desired...
...Chinese-American cinema. With their glimpses of swirling silks, their rapid clatter of languages, their arranged marriages, fatal renunciations, invocations of ghosts and ancestors, aphorisms straight out of a fortune cookie from one of the better Chinese restaurants, The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet look beautifully alien. But this is all a trick, to entice you with a vision of novelty. The Western viewer shortly, delightedly, discovers tales of universal savor and significance. Only the garnish is regional...
Poor Californians. No sooner cashed out of Glendale and resettled in Sun Valley in new Pendleton shirts than they are generally eager to please, dig in, join the school board. But the natives often regard them as interlopers who force up property values, stretch emergency services and introduce alien notions. So many celebrities and other moneyed migrants have moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for instance, that some resident working people can no longer afford to live there and have to commute from the small towns of Driggs and Victor, Idaho, across the treacherous Teton Pass...
...huge billboard, Jay Leno's battering-ram jaw juts out over Broadway. AMERICA IS STANDING UP FOR JAY, the sign says. Maybe NBC hopes the nation's insomniacs will take a loyalty oath to keep watching the Tonight Show, and repel alien threats from David Letterman on CBS and Chevy Chase on Fox. So who's standing up for these guys? Bosnia...
...morning of April 15, 1987, as he studied for his college entrance exams, Gregory Aller had his first visit from the aliens. "This brilliant white light appeared," Aller, now 29, recalls. "Space aliens were directing this. They told me I was going to become Speaker of the House. Then President Bush and Vice President Quayle would die. As President, I would unite our world with a dying alien planet whose sun was going...