Word: alienating
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...authors mentioned the popular animation that has been circulating on the Internet "with the cabaret-singing alien doing I Will Survive who gets killed by a falling disco ball." This film is called Alien Song and was created by Victor Navone. While working as an artist at a San Diego game company, he made it on his home computer with a $300 software package called Animation:Master by a little company called Hash Inc. Alien Song has been so popular that Navone gets hundreds of e-mails and many job offers. He now works as an animator at Pixar, maker...
After reading your story on Vladimir Putin [April 3], I realized why our leaders are probably worried about Russia's new President. The intensity, self-discipline, focus and pragmatism possessed by Putin are alien and scary to the louts we get to vote for. I wish we had a guy like that. MARTIN SMITH Chillicothe, Ohio...
...proposal laid its half-trillion-dollar egg--the space community has been intrigued by a mission scenario known as the Mars Direct plan. Developed by engineers at Martin Marietta Astronautics, a NASA contractor, Mars Direct calls not merely for visiting the Red Planet but also for living off the alien land...
Economists ponder the wealth effect the way many of us ponder alien life. They're pretty sure it's out there--but they can't prove it, they don't know how big it is, and they haven't a clue if it's dangerous. All of which is creating a bit of a stir among the dismal-science lot as their famous and thought-to-be-flawless colleague, Alan Greenspan, relentlessly jacks up interest rates to wage an undeclared war on this vague creature...
Convinced that his movie would get picked up by a distributor that could get it into theaters--if only he could reach one--Crowley dressed his production crew in alien costumes and set about annoying everyone in town. The aliens accosted pedestrians; the aliens faked public brawls; the aliens disturbed screenings with staged abductions; they shoved flyers for their movie in strangers' pockets. By midweek Crowley's aliens decided to crash a party for the Independent Film Channel, smuggling in a monitor and two subfunctional speakers under a trench coat...