Word: alienating
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...also opposes the immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union who were prevented from practicing their religion by the communists, arguing that they are atheists whose language and culture are alien to that of real Americans. Nor is their nativism limited to hatred of Jews; they oppose the immigration of Latinos as well...
When Dick Solomon, the alien high commander in 3rd Rock from the Sun, declares, "God bless television," he is merely reflecting the feeling of most earthlings: that television is the most influential medium of the 20th century...
...philistine. After all, the Weimar republic was something of a laboratory of modernity--it represents a self-conscious break with the culture that nurtured Otto von Bismarck and his moustached ilk. In 1926, in fact, the Reichstag voted for a censorship program that would suppress Schmutz and the alien, commercial cosmopolitanism that are so prevalent in Weimar visual culture...
...Academy Award-winning actor F. MURRAY ABRAHAM destined to be Mr. Roarke? Both hosts of Fantasy Island, Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell, have also played villains in Star Trek movies. Now Abraham has donned the latex for Star Trek: Insurrection. He plays Ru'afo, an alien Peter Pan. "Ru'afo's like so many of us who never want to grow old," says the actor, "but he takes it to terrible extremes, like some of these awful face-lifts you see in Hollywood." His own facial regimen--four hours of makeup daily--did have its perks: "Being really ugly...
Waldergreen Associates is a small, recently-formed consulting company with a diverse approach to solving management problems worldwide. Its founder and president, Robert Waldergreen, dropped out of Columbia University two months before graduation to start Waldergreen Associates, after the antenna which had been implanted in his skull by alien voyagers began picking up signals sent from beyond the solar system. Thousands of light years away in the star system Krion, a fleet of heavily-armed space cruisers began their slow, intergalactic march towards our sun. If these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with...