Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rancho teachers--all of whom had to write three essays on school reform as part of their job applications--will try almost anything to avoid that glazed-over look. On a recent afternoon John Henderson dictates to his writing class, "An alien landed at Rio Rancho and saw..." Each student is to continue the story for a sentence or two. "And when I say, 'Stop!,'" Henderson explains, "pass your paper to the next person." The hilarious results are intended to convey something about character development and narrative, if only by their absence...
...state, is a nasty little fascist, equipped with an intolerant immune system; it rejects such deeds as the Cambridge murder and necrophilia in the way that a healthy body rejects an invasion of microbes. This vigorous state of mind has no sympathy for what it identifies as alien life forms and thinks such sympathy would be dangerous weakness, a breakdown of a society's natural defenses. In some ways, of course, it is right...
...single dad. An odd couple--she's the daughter of aging hippies, he's the son of rich conservatives. A wacky alien. An incorruptible prosecutor. Another single dad. A precinct full of hotheaded urban cops. As the new shows suggest, the broadcast networks are not exactly venturing into unexplored territory this season; in fact, they aren't even leaving the hotel. That's neither surprising nor necessarily bad. Lots of successful shows have followed the conventions of the sitcom or the police drama. If a series about a divorced father and his wiseacre kids is truly funny, does anyone care...
...jokey sitcom Good News (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.). A winged adolescent watches over his mortal friend on ABC's kid-com Teen Angel (Fridays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.). And Fox's The Visitor (Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.) mixes religion and sci-fi through the wanderings of a messianic alien abductee, played by Jesus look-alike John Corbett (Northern Exposure...
Inside Howard is also an imp, one that can explode without warning, like the alien in John Hurt's belly. Howard's hand suddenly goes all frilly and limp; he refers to a crossroads as an "intersexual...homosection...intersection." Are these the symptoms of some rare disease--gay Tourette's--or merely the reaction of a gentle man under pressure? His life has been a mess ever since a former student of his, Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), won an Oscar for playing a homosexual. In his acceptance speech, Cameron thanked his inspiring English teacher back home...