Word: alienating
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Polls show the presidential race is tighter than Ted Kennedy's waistband, so perhaps it's time for less traditional methods of prognostication. The Weekly World News reports that the space alien who has chosen the winner correctly since 1992 has picked George W. Bush. Not all such scientific methods agree...
...couple of days later, the telephone rang, but it was the Democratic Reassurer. He said he had checked with people high up in the campaign and could say with absolute certainty that Al Gore is not a body shell inhabited by a human-speaking alien...
...treading on dangerous turf when one is a "Resident Alien" (the pleasant INS euphemism for "foreigner") and dares to critique any aspect of Americana. So let me preempt my words by saying how much I love America. If I didn't genuinely love this country and its many magnificent qualities, I wouldn't be here...
...Admittedly one does need stamina to play cricket. Professional games at the local level last three days. And international games between teams representing two nations (a concept which is understandably alien to baseball fans) stretch over five days. There is a reason for this. The English (who devised cricket and exported it to what was then its empire) are not a very spiritual nation. So cricket was invented as a way of defining infinity...
Yorke, the group's central songwriter, is obsessed with the disillusioned and the disoriented: a plastic surgeon in a fool's war with gravity, a crash victim who finds his near death experience makes him feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns...