Word: alienation
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While the rest of Europe gazed at televised action of recently resumed pro soccer leagues, millions of European sports fans last month tuned in to a decidedly more alien event: Major League Baseball slugger Barry Bonds' surpassing Hank Aaron's home-run record in far-off San Francisco. But viewers who caught the No. 756 coup de circuit from Toulouse weren't squinting at a blurry feed from mlb.com Instead, many Europeans watched Bonds' blast on the North American Sports Network (NASN)--a channel that is spreading that particular strain of U.S. sports mania to Europe...
...extracurricular performance.Either way, the audience should have been notified of the prerequisite for attending the performance—a knowledge of muscular anatomy. Such knowledge would have been the only way to make sense of the extensive nomenclature that was thrown at the audience during the performance. But the alien-sounding names ended up not being too much of a problem. Porter’s poetry is a close reading of the muscles that move us. It pays attention to the detail of these organs’ functions and the beauty of their synchronized relationships. In her performance, Porter often...
...dust, the remnants of the sacrificial teddy bear, covers everything in the room. The design must be clean so it can be fitted to the model, who is soon to arrive. Hays and her model arrive at the Sanctum in the nick of time, the latter looking like an alien from the Elizabethan era. The result is beautiful...
...going for him: a tightly wound plot to keep viewers guessing and a milieu--working-class sleuths and suspects--that would be exotic to viewers yet familiar to him. He also wisely dispensed with his own services as an actor. On these mean streets, Ben Affable would look as alien as a polo player. Brother Casey, with his cautious moves and strangulated voice, was the right...
...inviting a powerful and important—though abhorrent—figure and peppering his guest with pointed questions, Bollinger showed the true nature of academic debate: that all are free to speak but none are free from scrutiny.The controversy surrounding an invitation to an Iranian president is not alien to Harvard, which last year attracted similar ire, albeit on a smaller scale, for hosting Ahmadinejad’s predecessor Mohammad Khatami. We said then—and we say now—that such invitations are not only appropriate but laudable.The worthiness of an invitation to a guest speaker...