Word: alienating
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...scientific team assembled by writers Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find...
...operate, will always be sweatshops. The bottom line depends on whatever manufacturers and buyers can squeeze out of the market. The immigrants who work in the N.M.I. come here to make money for their families back home. They work, they get paid and they send home money. Not one alien has arrived illegally in the U.S. by way of the N.M.I. Many of the so-called violations are of federal law, yet the U.S. government has very little presence here. We feel that the Federal Government, not the states, has the responsibility to uphold its laws. ANTONIO R. CABRERA Former...
...economic services, as they gain the habits of the leisure class. Squash, the most important sport at the Harvard clubs of New York and Boston, is an integral part of that world; it is the equivalent, or better, of a corporate lunch in its power to make intimate otherwise alien economic relations...
This Year, the Pudding's 150th anniversary, the group honored actress Sigourney Weaver of "Alien" fame...
Alex Graff '00 would have looked normal in his blue hat, blue shirt and jeans had he not been splattered in fake blood. The sophomore also had a puppet poking out of his shirt which looked suspiciously like the worm-like parasitic aliens in Weaver's "Alien" series...