Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...architecture, epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. But in the '30s its heritage was cast away for a mess of ideological pottage, cooked up in the Bauhaus by various Germans and mittel Europeans under the sway of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This wholly alien style-monastic, severe, technology obsessed and full of socialist implications, smelling of Utopia and garlic-was brought to America, a country that (as Wolfe argues in one of his more dizzying transports of sociological fancy) had no need for worker housing and was therefore ill-fitted...
...believe either is enrolled in 12 credit hours"--a requirement for alien students to remain in the country--Geil added...
...darting curiosity. This former high school jock may lack all but the rudiments of an education, but he is one of those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment of the Bee Gees, "white men who have done this wonderful thing of making themselves sound like black women...
...stickers resembling the state license plate but proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES? Came the inevitable answer, I CARE...
...exploitation of alien labor has also led to the mistreatment of American workers. Says Craig Berrington, a Labor Department official who oversees investigations of wage law violations: "We cannot identify any particular job where there is only abuse of illegal aliens. We see them working side by side, illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens...