Word: alienating
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...director of memorably powerful and violent movies (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator), Ridley Scott is making his first attempt at comic romance. His new film, A Good Year, stars Russell Crowe and is adapted from A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, who has a home near Scott's in France (see review, p. 145). Scott, 68, talked with Belinda Luscombe about the French, Francis Ford Coppola's wine and how we'd all really like Kingdom of Heaven if we just saw more...
...question of whether human beings are the only intelligent life in the universe has baffled scientists for decades. Two Harvard professors think they have identified the equipment they will need to recognize radio waves from outer space, though one of them remains skeptical that alien signals will ever be found. Astronomy Professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb and Professor of Astronomy and Physics Matias Zaldarriaga proposed earlier this month a way to use new radio wave observatories to search for radio emissions from alien civilizations. Loeb, whose main area of research focuses on mapping...
...that I'm not excited about becoming American. I am. Sort of. I mean think of the advantages: Jury duty! Voting in primaries! Dirty looks from other nationalities! But the truth is that right up until I became an American, I was an Extraordinary Alien (Really, that's what my green card was called.) I could work and live in America and not have to stand for the national anthem. Ah, those were the days. You got to go on the short line at the airport but you didn't have to own up to being the same nationality...
...listener.Silverman plays a much more rhythmic and syncopated line in the second movement, “Sri Moonshine.” The jazzy and chromatic melody plays in rhythmic counterpoint with the piano, harp, percussion, and brass—instruments retuned for the piece using a system that is alien to most listeners. As a result, the amplified violin combines with the orchestra to create weird, exotic, and intoxicating harmonies. One might think that after such an endearing tribute to California, Adams has all but forgotten his native East Coast. Yet the second piece on the album...
...enjoy life and not worry about what comes next." In every messy context, the President seeks succor in a simple certainty--good vs. evil, terror vs. freedom--without sensing that wars are also won in the folds of uncertainty and guile, of doubt and tactical adjustment that are alien to the fundamentalist psyche...