Word: alienated
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...Sliders, about a charmingly disheveled physics student who creates a void in his basementthat transports him to different parallel universes every week. Elsewhere, Showtime has just launched a revival of the 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits (Sundays, 10 p.m. est), which will prey on fears of everything from alien organisms to virtual reality. These shows are joining a sizable armada of sci-fi programming already on the air, ranging from nbc's SeaQuest DSV and Earth 2 to the syndicated Star Trek sequels, as well as the fare offered on cable's Sci-Fi Channel, now seen in over...
...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 I think she's been replaced by evil alien invaders...
...Bobby. That's a big problem. First of all, your mommy hasn't been replaced by evil alien invaders, comforting as that scenario may seem. You're clearly not happy with the way mommy's been acting lately, and it's easier for you to think of her as an evil alien invader. This is a coping mechanism which will enable you to get through what Bruno Bettelheim calls "that thorniest of thickets, puberty...
...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...