Word: alienating
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...Dancing Baby, first created by Unreal Pictures Inc., was released in August 1996 as a prototype to demonstrate the capabilities of the new character animation system for 3D Studio MAX. Originally, the creators made an adult skeleton dance. Next, they had an alien dance. None of these characters made an impact. But one fateful day, the designers superimposed an image of a large plastic baby doll over the dancing adult skeleton. A star was born. Shortly thereafter, company employees began sending the animation file through email, and soon it became an Internet favorite, accompanied by music ranging from B.J. Thomas...
...care at all about D.'s resident alien status or her sly ways of dodging her civic responsibility. "It says right on the form," the man said gruffly, "that you don't need to be a resident to get jury duty. So long as you reside here more than 50 percent of the year." D. quickly reviewed the arithmetic. Yes, nine months did indeed constitute more than 50 percent of the year. She was trapped...
...could ask the 27 people around if I evenopened the mouth during the alteration. I neveropened my mouth," Davis said. "The only way I cansay this with so much assurance is because 27people watched me sit there and be badgered likean alien...
...that it has been included in the last two rounds of presidential debates. In both '92 and '96, the Clinton camp insisted on it, and no wonder. The most painful moment in either campaign came in watching George Bush and Bob Dole struggle feebly to adapt themselves to this alien venue. Bill Clinton glided through the town meetings, reveling in the chance to display his almost superhuman empathy. But Bush and Dole were older gents, from a generation that considered reticence a virtue and self-exposure a weakness--not, in other words, town-meeting material. They had the stunned look...
...oxymoron, and since coercion and state terror were the only gluing mechanism of the USSR, any reform experiment meant to give their socialism a "human face" was bound to destroy the very pillars of that system. It was the Czechs' and Slovaks' attempts to make sense of an alien ideology during 1968, however, and its eventual crushing by Soviet hardware, that infected the Soviet Union's politics 20 years later, leading to the sensational death of a bloody tyranny...