Word: alienating
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...idea of fighting an alien race of insects isn't even an original one. The movie is based on the Robert Heinlein book of the same name, although one might claim with equal credibility, and affront to the author, that Batman Forever was based on Crime and Punishment. Heinlein, a masterful and highly respected science fiction author, created a futuristic republic in which people had to join the military to be deemed citizens, and the concept of civil responsibility was a matter of great importance and controversy. This, juxtaposed with the fact that the race was at war with insects...
Mack, who conducts highly controversial alien abduction research, was investigated in 1995 by his colleagues. The Medical School questioned the nature of his research, in which he interviewed people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, and assumed they were sane and telling the truth...
...Rancho teachers--all of whom had to write three essays on school reform as part of their job applications--will try almost anything to avoid that glazed-over look. On a recent afternoon John Henderson dictates to his writing class, "An alien landed at Rio Rancho and saw..." Each student is to continue the story for a sentence or two. "And when I say, 'Stop!,'" Henderson explains, "pass your paper to the next person." The hilarious results are intended to convey something about character development and narrative, if only by their absence...
...state, is a nasty little fascist, equipped with an intolerant immune system; it rejects such deeds as the Cambridge murder and necrophilia in the way that a healthy body rejects an invasion of microbes. This vigorous state of mind has no sympathy for what it identifies as alien life forms and thinks such sympathy would be dangerous weakness, a breakdown of a society's natural defenses. In some ways, of course, it is right...
...single dad. An odd couple--she's the daughter of aging hippies, he's the son of rich conservatives. A wacky alien. An incorruptible prosecutor. Another single dad. A precinct full of hotheaded urban cops. As the new shows suggest, the broadcast networks are not exactly venturing into unexplored territory this season; in fact, they aren't even leaving the hotel. That's neither surprising nor necessarily bad. Lots of successful shows have followed the conventions of the sitcom or the police drama. If a series about a divorced father and his wiseacre kids is truly funny, does anyone care...