Word: alienating
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...been abused by enough sitcoms to make you dread seafood. But this series, about Raja, a Pakistani Muslim exchange student (Adhir Kalyan) who befriends his suburban host family's nerdy son (Dan Byrd), is fresh, good-hearted and totally winning. Like Taxi's Latka Gravas and Alf's title alien, the earnest Raja is a foreign power you'll surrender to from sheer laughter...
...self-trained illustrator who specializes in pen on paper. His notable works include Alien Fighting Dragon as well as the epic Robot Dragon. His work has been displayed throughout eastern Nebraska, most notably, on the refrigerator of Steve Batter, who “normally doesn’t put stuff on the fridge.” Catch his latest masterpieces every Tuesday, right here in The Harvard Crimson...
...there would surely be plenty of Jews—self-professed anti-Zionists among them—to undermine it. More important, to believe something as absurd as the idea that all 13 million Jews agree, one would already need to hold ugly views of Jews as conspiratorial and alien. All of this confirms what everyone but Matory already knows: Bigotry is always the fault of bigots, never of its victims...
...Like alien autopsies and the second gunman, the belief that someone other than a glover's son from Stratford wrote William Shakespeare's plays is a conspiracy theory that refuses to die. Doubters started questioning the true identity of the writer in the late 19th century. Ever since then, the theory of an alternate author has flirted with the mainstream as some scholars and researchers have tried to get the broader academic community to treat the question as a legitimate debate, instead of the ramblings of crackpots. Now, almost 300 Shakespeare skeptics have made a very public plea...
...parents, one of the more fascinating facets of AMC's period advertising drama Mad Men is its picture of child rearing in pre-childproofed, pre-co-sleeping 1960. There is a sense here that parents and kids have separate lives, and the kids' lives seem as alien, independent and dangerous as in caveman times: they ride in cars un-seat-belted, play with dry-cleaning bags and get sent off to shoot BB guns while the grownups have cocktails...