Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Uncle" (voted by WFNX in 1991 as the "best song to have sex to"), talking dirty is a staple of sexual interaction. To those who practice it, 'netsex builds on this erotic principle by typing dirty. To those who have not tried it, it can seem alien, even perverse. As "Worm," a Leverett senior puts it, "Who wants to spank off at the rate of 9600 baud?" Nevertheless, it goes on all day, every day, in every forum which allows people to talk to each other electronically...
...says that I can't watch Power Rangers on TV anymore. Mommy says the Power Rangers "numb me to the real world violence brought on by Republicancaused severe souci-economic problems." She trash-compacted my Power Ranger action figures yesterday. Help! I think she's been replaced by evil alien invaders...
...most of the rock era, John had worked and lived in the grand and sordid rock-star tradition: written hundreds of songs, sold albums in the hundred millions, cavorted onstage in tuxes and plumes, dared to announce his bisexuality, endured rehab for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, bulimia. Nothing human was alien to him. But as he began the task of composing melodies to Tim Rice's words for the Disney animated adventure, John wondered whether he'd sunk too low. "I sat there with a line of lyrics that began, 'When I was a young warthog ... ' and I thought...
...California, stretches directly in front of David Gomez Rocha's plywood shack. Seven days a week the 28-year-old rises at 3 a.m. for a two-hour trip across the border to pick asparagus for $4.25 an hour. Granted amnesty in 1987, Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals. Mexico is the U.S.'s right hand. They...
...jokingly tell Mastoianni about imagining laser beams and alien skin beneath the long trenchcoats and felt hats of the HRSFA members, Mastroianni responds, "Oh, I love all the cheesy sci-fi about gadgets and laser guns, but in my favorite sci-fi the gadgets should be integrated and not the focus. When I first read A Wrinkle in Time in fourth grade, amid all the magic, I could constantly ask the question 'What...