Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard frontier alien, but Catherine is a refreshing variant of the headstrong heroine. She is a potentially capable woman to whom nothing has happened, so she has nothing to bring to a sudden flood of experience except some mulish preconceptions. Durham leads her through the standard scenes: the learn-your-place tethering by Jay, the strip-or-go-filthy decision, the threat of lascivious Indians. Catherine handles them all incongruously...
...could be represented at News stockholder meetings. Envisioning vociferous claques disrupting the normally decorous deliberations, the News quietly offered Guerin a handsome overbid for his 400 shares, and Guerin just as quietly accepted. Both sides profited; Guerin made money and the News kept its closely held stock out of alien hands...
...drive and determination. From interviews with intimates of Lyndon Johnson in Miami Beach, Wallace pieced together an effective word picture of the ex-President sulking at home last week: "He's got three color television sets going at the same time, and he's watching an alien political party that still bears the name of the party he loved go about nominating as its presidential candidate a man he detests with passion...
Penultimately, the invading quick-change alien becomes simultaneously the British Prime Minister, the Presidents of the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and Chairman Mao. But as the creature changes, it learns not only earth biology but politics and catches up, with deadly irony, to Dr. West's (and Hoyle's) own belief that scientists and technologists, not politicians, hold the real power...
...quickly that he is halfway down the street before those with him are out the door. There is no wasted motion, no nervousness, no visible temperament. For a Polish immigrant's son like Joe, proud of his plain taste and blunt speech, an artistic temperament is soft, alien to his ideals...