Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many fans of Independence Day, The X-Files and alien-autopsy videos know, Roswell is the town in southeastern New Mexico famous for a UFO crash that allegedly took place in 1947; the military, so the story goes, recovered some alien remains--and has kept them locked up ever since in a top-secret deep freeze. The Pentagon maintains that what it really recovered was the remains of a sophisticated, secret, surveillance balloon. But who would want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that? So this summer, from July 1 through July 6, the town will be host to Roswell...
...GIFFORD winced last week as her battle with the Globe escalated into an ugly war of attrition. Kathie Lee vehemently denied the tabloid's cheesy allegations that her husband, football Hall of Famer FRANK GIFFORD, had cheated on her, saying that next the tab would report on her alien baby fathered by co-host Regis Philbin. The tabloid responded by self-righteously publishing what its editors say is shots from a videotape of Frank Gifford's tryst with a 46-year-old consultant in a ritzy New York City hotel. The Globe staff maintains that by maligning their reporters' research...
...Australian, Hughes enjoys a special vantage point on America's visual culture. "You need to be an alien to do this sort of semi-anthropology," he says. "You need to be both inside and outside the subject." Knowledgeable as he was when he started, Hughes still found that his years of working on American Visions taught him a few things about our art--and our country. One lesson, learned while shooting the TV series: "The rarest thing in the Great American Outdoors is a moment of silence. Every time we turned on a camera in some national park or other...
...from sunny Tucson, this correspondence from LIONEL BRILL, who missed our last reunion: "By now, I'm sure the whole class knows about our abduction on the way to the 20th. Sheila was assigned to an alien breeding facility and--wouldn't you know it?--I was sent to a labor camp, where I bumped into MATT PEW, who, as you might imagine, was in fine form." Lionel goes on to report that Sheila is still working on her coming-of-age memoir about her tumultuous nine months in utero, and that any classmate interested in participating in the bidding...
...right groups, tells the story of a group of white supremacists who blow up FBI headquarters in Washington at 9:15 one morning--almost exactly the same time of the Oklahoma City bombing. The Turner Diaries oozes invective against blacks and Jews. "We have allowed a diabolically clever, alien minority to put chains on our souls and our minds," a passage reads. "Why didn't we roast them over bonfires at every street corner in America? Why didn't we make a final end to this obnoxious and eternally pushy clan, this pestilence from the sewers of the East...