Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents reward their sons for lying about money. The surest way out of a sticky situation is bribery. Currency is as counterfeit as the system it supports. A young man (Christian Patey) unknowingly passes a phony 500-franc note, but be cause his stubborn rectitude marks him as an alien in the kingdom of greed, he must suf fer an almost comic series of calamities: fired from his job, then jailed, then abandoned by his wife (Caroline Lang). His child must die. Finally, his spirit purified into psychosis, Yvon must kill...
...FILM "E.T." actor Henry Thomas plays the shy boy who befriends the extra-terrestial with a handful of Reeses Pieces. Thomas innate talents were often overshadowed by the loving, leathery alien, but in Director Jerry Schatzberg's new film. Misunderstood. Thomas captivates the audience with his sensitive, believable portrayal of a young boy grieving his mother's death...
...there are many other benefits, but every four years or eight years, the river, flooded by storms that are too far away to be seen, changes its course, and you are left in a desert, all alone. These irrational changes, of course, produced by a political vengefulness that is alien to American life, are a great danger. They confuse our friends, mislead our adversaries and confound our own plans for a more manageable world...
...mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
...Marxism is a political philosophy alien to the Caribbean nations," the Prime Minister said