Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...projects video images of talking heads. They stare at the viewer and blankly recite children's variations of songs commonly heard in school yards: "Joy to the world, the teacher's dead; we barbecued her head." Yet monotone delivery and eerie visual presentation transform these rhymes into disturbing alien utterances. We watch both mesmerized and repulsed, while the sculptures dare us to pull their plugs...
During a five-hour program that is carried on 335 stations across the nation every night and is heard by more than 10 million night owls, Bell is host to callers who usually relate a weird assortment of paranormal and supernatural tales. Alien abductions, poltergeists, UFO encounters, remote viewing, ESP and other unlikely phenomena are common fare...
...Chevrolet that "just fell out of the sky" in Long Beach, California; a farmer who threw machinery and dead cows into a hole on his property and claimed that they "never hit bottom"; and an interview with Richard Hoagland, who claims the government is suppressing news of alien structures on the Moon and Mars...
...doing-it-but-we're-not-doing-it attitude with which television often ends up approaching taboos, which might best be exemplified by the first interracial kiss on TV between Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Lieut. Uhura. Back then, in 1968, the couple was forced by alien telepathy to smooch against their will...
...seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead in a romantic comedy (The American President), as crabby partners in a road movie (My Fellow Americans), as an ambiguous foil for action hero Harrison Ford (Clear and Present Danger), as a work-obsessed '90s dad (First Kid), as battlers of alien invaders (Independence Day, Mars Attacks!) and, perhaps most disturbing of all, as Alan Alda (Canadian Bacon...