Word: alienment
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...border was changing Mexico just as quickly as--and maybe faster than--it was changing the U.S." Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy and photojournalist James Nachtwey spent a week with migrants, border-patrol agents and people smugglers in the desert scrub dividing Mexico and Arizona, the busiest alien-smuggling corridor along the border...
...Alien Plague...
...movie is the fourth feature by French writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous project was Alien: Resurrection. That 1997 sci-fi horror film established Jeunet in international cinema's big-time, but two years in Hollywood left him longing for the charms of Paris. Back home in Montmartre, Jeunet began planning a film that would reflect Paris in his uniquely colorful and contorted visual style and recapture the dream-like atmosphere of his 1991 black comedy Delicatessen. The intent of Amélie, Jeunet says, was to make audiences feel happy-a goal he has clearly fulfilled...
...Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...
...they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were hard to find, they might try searching abroad for exploitable material. And since the love-song format developed by U.S. composers had infiltrated every corner of the globe, foreign tunesmiths had already learned America's musical "language." Only the lyrics were alien, and they could be translated...