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Word: alienates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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They fit into the work atmosphere incredibly well, although none of my editors has ever rechristened me "Ookie-Bookie Stein" and told me I look like Jar Jar, an alien from the new Star Wars film. But basically it was very professional. At the end of the morning, as we were writing our story on the tale of the lonely designer, my boss, managing editor Walter Isaacson, walked by my office. "I just wanted to make sure my daughter wasn't in your group," he told me. "I didn't want you to teach her how to write." This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Investigative Daughters | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...since I was sick on marshmallows and watching Barbie commercials have I experienced something like this. But frankly, as I've never been involved in hub-cap theft and convex mirrors are thus completely alien to me, Girls on the Run is nonetheless exceptionally accessible--in Ashbery's (still-verdant) oeuvre...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wannabe Jabberwocky | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...different kind of way. Darth Vader was half machine, half man, and that's where he lost a lot of his humanity. He has mechanical legs. He has mechanical arms. He's hooked up to a breathing machine. This one is all human. I wanted him to be an alien, but I wanted him to be human enough that we could identify with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Myth And Men | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...fluorescent fertilizer looks like an alien with thinning hair just coming out of the shower, before the Rogaine is applied. It can't be too easy to get a mixture of that heinous color; why not tone it down a few shades to get it a grassy green? Radioactive treatment: Bad; back to basics: Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...something more direct is to your taste, Seven Stars also carries The Ultimate Alien Agenda and The Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Or you could browse through one of the many books on Roswell, New Mexico, the site of a purported UFO crash...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: The Reporter's Note book | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

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