Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schwarzenegger gives a soberly befuddled performance as a man pleasantly surprised, and ultimately transformed, by the play of alien hormones to which he's host. Giddiness (and most of the film's knockabout comedy) is left to Emma Thompson as a bright, klutzy fellow scientist, and she is a lovely reminder of our screwball yesteryears. Like all concerned with Junior, she refuses to let it rest lazily on its concept. The result is a high-energy farce that is more endearing and, yes, more believable than it has any right...
...course, we haven't found any alien life yet," Grogin said, "and alien life that is out there would have to be light years away...
...ignore battered, molested or starving two-year-olds just because they are undocumented." Los Angeles police chief Willie Williams announced there were . no policy changes in his department, although the initiative requires local law-enforcement officers to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service any illegal alien arrested for other reasons. Officials, however, were bombarded with angry calls, protesting the use of taxpayer funds for lawsuits and threatening recalls of recalcitrant politicians. Several clinics reported a sharp drop in visits, as immigrants worried about deportation...
Protesters said they particularly feared the consequences of the "suspicion clause," which requires employers, teachers and others to report anyone they believe is an illegal alien to the Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...Examiner -- management tried to get around the picket lines by publishing the news on the Internet. But the strikers put out their own electronic tabloid -- complete with columnists Herb Caen and Jon Carroll -- and were the first to report that Dianne Feinstein may have once employed an illegal alien as a housekeeper...