Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supply-side advocate, draws the economic boomers and is politically correct on social issues. Texas Senator Phil Gramm has a strong regional base and conservative fiscal credentials but may suffer from the perception that he has cuddled up too snugly with the party establishment. James Baker is even more alien to the wingers than Bush. Baker would have a shot at the 1996 nomination only if parts of the right wing got so disgusted with the G.O.P. that they bolted to form a new party. Given the fractious mood, and the strong appeal of Ross Perot's aborted candidacy, that...
...dazzling display did stun a few passerby. Jones said he overheard several people hypothesizing on the cause of the eerie light when he went walking in the Square on Sunday night. "I heard some alien comments," he said...
...whopper, all right. But Jean- Claude Van Damme is appealing as a "UniSol" whose memories of a previous life recur and lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good to get back to the bloody basics with a little style and self-satirizing...
...Muslim businessman from Sarajevo who now camps with his wife, two children and 100 other people in a sports hall in downtown Zagreb. He says the drumbeat of Serbian leaders, who declare that any Serb who doesn't join the battle is a traitor, has made Sarajevo an alien place. "I used to have the feeling I knew half the city," he says. "Now that's gone...
White House campaign officials insist Bush did not let election-year politics dictate his decision, but Ira Kurzban, lawyer for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, believes otherwise. "The Haiti policy," he says, "plays to the basest part of the Republican Party, the anti-alien group, the racists, to keep them from crossing over to Ross Perot...