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Under the bill's most controversial provision, employers will be subject to fines of from $250 to $10,000 for each illegal alien they hire; they will also be responsible for checking the birth certificates or passports of prospective workers. The new law grants amnesty to illegal aliens who can show that they entered the country before Jan. 1, 1982, and have lived here continuously since then, a provision that may benefit as many as 8 million people. Congress provided $4 billion to states to help defray increased costs for schools and social services used by newly legalized aliens...
...easily form the newest version of a traditional small town. They may congregate in malls instead of town halls, but by indulging one another's peculiarities, they create a sense of community. Why shouldn't the national anthem of Virgil be Wild Wild Life? And why shouldn't the alien Narrator stop by to celebrate everybody's specialness...
Though there are plenty of time-lapse jokes about Edsels and the Beatles and moonwalks and miracles of the computer age ("Everything else gets tiny," she says, "but portable radios get enormous"), Peggy Sue is streaked with melancholy. She is an alien in 1960; she will be stranded too when she returns to the '80s, where the boulevard of possibilities has narrowed to a blind alley. Reconciling with Charlie or starting life over without him seem dour alternatives after her glimpse at the limitless prospects of her youth. Like the Jimmy Stewart character in Frank Capra...
...surrogate parent for a runaway sibling in CBS's My Sister Sam. In ABC's Heart of the City, a police detective has himself transferred out of the SWAT unit so he can spend more time with his motherless children. And Starman, also on ABC, brings back the alien from John Carpenter's 1984 sci-fi film and unites him with the son he fathered on his first trip to earth...
...When a spaceship crashes through the roof of the Tanners' garage, out pops a wisecracking alien, who promptly moves in with the family. The Tanners accept this turn of events with amazing matter-of-factness, but ALF is no place to look for plausibility -- or charm. The outer-space visitor looks like an Ewok from the wrong side of the tracks and talks like Charlie the Tuna. In no time he is barging into the bathroom, hogging the stereo headset and cranking out ancient one-liners ("Do you get Sesame Street where you live?" "No, and frankly...