Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hughes a thing or two about eccentricity. He shares Perot's elephantine ego, endless self-righteousness, grandiose political ambitions and deep-seated belief that people are plotting against him. Some of his notions--like the mystical importance of the number 19 and his claim to have taken trips on alien spacecraft--are as cockamamie as Hughes' obsession with germs. As far as I know, neither Perot nor Hughes ever pretended to speak on behalf of God. For Farrakhan and his followers, such miracles are strictly routine...
...part, has generally observed a nonaggression pact. Other than a nasty reference on Saturday Night Live and one on Rush Limbaugh's TV show, Chelsea has been left to lead a normal life. Even tabloids like the Weekly World News, which bannered Hillary's adoption of an alien baby, have resisted sending paparazzi to stalk the First Child...
...lining up under the banner of fighting terrorism to give police more authority to invade every citizen's already much abused privacy? America has experienced this kind of legislative reaction before, and never with good results. In John Adams' day, hysteria over possible war with France produced the oppressive Alien and Sedition Acts. And in Harry Truman's day, hysteria over communism led to an ugly series of loyalty measures that launched the nation on a tortured search for demons. JOHN W. CHUCKMAN Manotick, Canada...
...Jones is vindicated: we see that some 16 million years ago, the slapstick asteroid A slammed into planet B (Mars, the fourth rock from the sun), dislodging spud-size meteorite C, which spitballed through space and whammed into planet D (Earth). Betimes, the alien microspud wakes up in the Antarctic and assumes the shape of an outlandishly hot idea, E (LIFE ON MARS!!!!), which pinballs hectically through Earthling media, knocking vases off the mantelpiece, toppling assumptions, causing tabloid amazement and theological consternation...
...professors interviewed all expressed various levels of excitement about the prospect of alien life, but they also uniformly cautioned against jumping to premature conclusions...