Word: alienating
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...Bright Lights, Big City,” is an awkwardly written show to begin with, and when this cast tries to run with the cool kids, the results can be hard to watch. But that’s probably not an alien experience to most Harvard students, and what this show really wants is to go home to Mom. That’s as admirable a goal as any. I’m not giving anything away when I tell you that Jamie makes it, but just because you can see the happy ending from a mile off doesn?...
...come easily. Swedish officials fret about the potential security risks and the costs posed by a swelling population of displaced Muslims. Although relieved to have escaped the grinding violence of Iraq, Sweden's Iraqis face the prospect of having to rebuild shattered lives and find work in an alien society. For many, the trauma of Iraq is inescapable. Recent arrivals like Alaa say they fear being hunted down by sectarian rivals in Stockholm. "We don't know who is who here," says Alaa. In a Swedish government asylum office, he was shocked to see Iraqis in "long beards and short...
...Bigelow, a Las Vegas icon whom many compare with the early Howard Hughes, the aircraft enthusiast who started TWA, although Bigelow, who is in his 60s, isn't as eccentric, probably. Yes, in 1995, he founded the now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science to investigate paranormal activity and alien abductions, principally because his grandparents claimed to have had a close encounter with a UFO. But in 2002 he licensed exclusive rights to NASA's canceled TransHab inflatable habitat and set to work creating his own commercial space stations and hotels. Last July Genesis I shot into space, ballooned...
...brief, engaging yarns like West Bank Story, a musical about competing falafel stands in the Middle East, and The Saviour, a drama about a door-to-door Mormon evangelist in love with a married woman. On the animated bill are little gems like Lifted, a Pixar picture about an alien learning the basics of abduction, and Maestro, in which the aforementioned Hungarian animator goes behind the scenes of a cuckoo clock in 3-D. "It's satisfying to see something that's funny or dark and really short," says Gary Rydstrom, director of Lifted. "Those are both tones that...
...Radio sales had plummeted and periodicals issued story after story describing the plight of the beleaguered radio industry. Film and television had co-opted radio technology to move past the silent film era and into a new age of sync-sound entertainment. Why listen to Orson Welles narrate an alien invasion when you can watch Tom Cruise stop one?Instead of continuing to use the live music format that most stations have been using since the late 1920s, radio began to turn back to the recorded album in an attempt to save itself. At first, it seemed, the answer...