Word: alienable
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...haven't been home for nearly a month now. Much to my surprise, I have developed some of the sharp-eyed empathy with the city that used to fascinate me because it was so alien. When I walk down the street, instead of looking at the sky, at the weather, at the moon, I look into the cars to deduce their owners, notice whether shop front displays have changed, anticipate the queues for broken escalators to the Victoria Line. Some days, walking home from work, I feel a self-contained elation, holding myself aloof and feeling bold; shouldering past...
Most likely to turn your child into a space cadet. At first, home video games were supposed to be educational, teaching the kids computer literacy and all that. Then came Nintendo, purveyor of the Super Mario Bros., to revitalize the world market for mindless alien blasting. Parents now suspect that there is something disturbingly addictive about these amusements, but at least they keep the kids off the streets...
...apparatchiks who fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving too fast and bringing in alien Western ideas that are pushing the country toward a social breakdown...
...trek through the alien goo of mass media...
...phenomenon confined to the snarls of the lumpen proletariat or the cafe chatter of polite society. Western diplomats in Budapest say some leaders of the opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum have made Glempish noises about the undue influence in the media of "alien forces" -- code words considerably less obscure than "goose merchants...