Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close to 10 years now. Meanwhile, even though the media stopped paying attention back when the cast was taking its PSATs, the kids on Fox's Beverly Hills 90210 have been slogging--in real time--through high school and four years of college. ABC's Family Matters and its alien-voiced, freak man-child Steve Urkel have been with us for eight seasons--and yet the show remains the highest rated in its time period. The same network's Coach (on hiatus until midwinter) is in its ninth season with a star, Craig T. Nelson, who isn't even...
...almost overwhelms the knowledge that we are looking at a woman's body. Sometimes the focus on form enters the realm of pure optical illusion. One example is the photograph of the bodies of two men in a desert, overlapping in such a way that they resemble an alien creature...
...Army "laser weapon" that was being used to shoot down UFOs missed an alien craft and "locked on" to the airliner instead...
...change, is an action movie that takes its subject but not itself seriously. It has a theme: the temptation to become something other and powerful, instead of cozy, ordinary you. It borrows not only from the Trek canon, but from other science fiction (eek!--there's a killer alien on board!). Yet First Contact is no grab bag of camp gewgaws; it stands proud and apart, accessible even to the Trek-deficient. This old Star, it seems, has a lot of life...
...Begay argues that these rates fail to reflect that far higher numbers of Native Americans actually enter higher education--and then drop out. He says this is because many Native Americans are only beginning to feel comfortable in an alien educational system...