Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Airplanes is the story of M. (Rocco Sisto), a timid Manhattanite who, while walking his date home one night, finds himself transported to an alien ship, where spacemen subject him to various medical experiments, then release him with a warning to forget everything. M.'s struggle to remember, and to tell the world, is at the heart of the piece...
...plot to this movie. Murphy plays Akeem, surprisingly liberated prince of the tradition-bound fantasyland of Zamunda, who travels incognito with his friend Semmi (Hall) to look for an equally liberated bride in America (specifically, Queens, N.Y.). The plot provides for a familiar satirical set-up: naive, good-hearted alien exposes by juxtaposition the follies of American customs. The plot is about as predictable as an Orioles game; it exists only as a framework on which to hang the gags...
...Western eyes, the lot of a Soviet woman may seem outrageously unfair. Yet Soviet women find Western attitudes toward marriage and family alien, if not laughable. "Your ideas of independence are a luxury," says Tanya, the English teacher. A small minority speak longingly of organized action to press for women's rights but are afraid that officials would crack down on any such effort. Most, however, are too overwhelmed by the hardships of day-to-day living to squander energy on political and personal issues that for more than two decades have enlivened Western debate about the woman's role...
Ever since the pioneering transplant operations of the 1960s, the chief obstacle to the full recovery of transplant patients has been the immune system's xenophobic zeal to destroy anything that is foreign to the body. Once the alien threat has been identified, agents known as helper T cells unleash the powerful immune response that attacks grafted tissue. During the 1970s, physicians found that they could minimize this reaction by more closely matching the MHC proteins, or immunological "dog tags," of a donor with those of the recipient. Even so, they could not completely eliminate the rejection response. To make...
...immune system is made up of a trillion specialized cells, regulated by powerful biochemicals, that wage an unending war on alien organisms that cause illness, suffering and death. Spurred along by the AIDS epidemic, research into its complex and wondrous workings is bringing about promising developments in the treatment of deadly diseases. See MEDICINE...