Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene, of course, was a rip-off of Alien, and it might even have been meant to parody the insufferable delivery scenes in other movies where everything comes out all right. But joke or no joke, how can anyone dissociate him/herself from the all-too-real pain? How can anyone with the slightest parental urge--or human decency--laugh at a delivery that ends in bloody death? And, given that laughter is a complex entity and could signal distress as well as pleasure, why was the reaction to the movie overwhelmingly, ecstatically favorable...
...travel on to such places as Los Angeles and Chicago and end its run in Boston Nov. 2. The company is presenting eight separate productions, with no more than three in any one night. Trying to gauge the tastes of American audiences, and their tolerance for the alien sounds of Chinese singing and musical instruments, the American organizers have chosen the most come-at-able works in the repertory, cutting even those when they seemed to go on too long. One that did not need to be cut by more than five minutes is the comic The Monkey King Fights...
...plot has remained. Repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is struck, like Saul of Tarsus, with a vision of alien benignity; together with Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon), whose small son has run away from home to hitch a ride on a starship, Roy brazens his way into the first meeting of man and extraterrestrial. Both film versions pay heartfelt homage to the spirit of early Disney-not only in their use of the song When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) but also in their insistence on a childlike belief in the magic of movies. The actors here...
...IMMIGRATION department has a word for me: "alien." 'I prefer "Canadian." Funny that, while I've been embroiled for two years in a futile effort to get an American social security number, most of my friends now wish they didn't have one. Or at least, wish they didn't have to surrender it to the menacingly acronymed...
...huge population?four times that of the U.S.S.R.?China remains an obsession with the Soviets. When Kremlin leaders look to the east, they see two nightmares coming together: their most numerous and implacable foreign enemies in China, and the demographic challenge of their fast-breeding, ethnically alien compatriots in Central Asia. It is for this reason that the most intense manifestation of Russian xenophobia is Sinophobia. On the streets of Moscow, for example, the occasional Chinese visitor inspires something palpably different from and deeper than the resentment that Muscovites display toward the thousands of Third World exchange students...