Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suits Lydia Lunch's voice perfectly. What prevents the whole affair from degenerating into the ridiculous is the presence of Pat Irwin's electric guitar. Irwin seems more of a collaborator than a player throughout, and she executes her sonic attacks with ruthless efficiency. The overall conception is very alien; as the band begins to swing, Irwin launches an atonal, heavily feedbacked solo that cuts right through the soul of the song...
...encouragement that Massachusetts gave Kennedy, the state may have changed the Republican race far more dramatically. On the surface, Reagan had good reason to be satisfied by the tally, finishing a respectable third in a state that was alien territory. He thanked the voters for giving him and Wife Nancy what he called a splendid present for their 28th wedding anniversary, which fell on the day that voters cast their ballots. On Saturday, Reagan got an even more glittering prize when he soundly defeated Connally in the South Carolina primary. With most of the ballots counted, Reagan was winning nearly...
...script hits as often as it misses when it relies on humor that is generally accessible, as it does in the second scene in the Somerville apartment. But the little lawyers continually rely on in-jokes, strings of innuendos and associations totally in-comprehensible to anyone alien to their peculiar colony. Prof. Peter Murray plays a Professor Perinifield in a scene in an HLS classroom: I think he is modeled on someone and I am sure he is very funny. There is another sketch at something called the Daily Gannett, which I think parodies the Law School newspaper, except...
...alien spacecraft that exploded while trying to land on earth. A hit by a stray bit of antimatter, or a speeding mini-black hole, or the head of a comet. These are some of the fanciful theories offered over the years to explain the fireball in the sky and the giant explosion that devastated a remote region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, leveling trees for miles around, knocking over huts, stampeding reindeer and creating an enormous shock wave detected around the world...
...there first, the author is disarmed of illusion and no longer fit to wage war. In a letter to an un named intimate, he writes, "I wish I could explain the desperate sense of isolation, of not belonging to my own past, of being adrift in some kind of alien space." It is the unresolved anger of a soldier whose arms, legs, eyes and genitals are constantly threatened with mutilation...