Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic services, as they gain the habits of the leisure class. Squash, the most important sport at the Harvard clubs of New York and Boston, is an integral part of that world; it is the equivalent, or better, of a corporate lunch in its power to make intimate otherwise alien economic relations...
This Year, the Pudding's 150th anniversary, the group honored actress Sigourney Weaver of "Alien" fame...
Alex Graff '00 would have looked normal in his blue hat, blue shirt and jeans had he not been splattered in fake blood. The sophomore also had a puppet poking out of his shirt which looked suspiciously like the worm-like parasitic aliens in Weaver's "Alien" series...
Weaver's roles run the gamut from action heroine (most notably in the Alien series) to character actress (with Golden Globe award-winning performances in Working Girl and Gorillas in the Mist) to comedienne (in Ghost-busters and Dave), She also won a Tony award for her work in Hurlyburly...
...experience with freedom. The Islamic revolution of 1979 was Iran's only real opportunity to experience freedom because of two exceptional features of that revolution: it uprooted the colonial sponsored dictatorship without resorting to the power of weaponry, and the revolution started with freedom rather than suppression. But the alien agents who had affected our destiny in the past did not stay idle, and hatched plots and therefore prevented us from enjoying the fruits of freedom...