Word: alienment
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...Spock, lieutenant commander, Starfleet, United Federation of Planets. A big opportunity here. First, Harvard could make a big statement for affirmative action by appointing an alien. Second, the University could be the institution to give Spock the opportunity at command that he's always deserved. Third, rhymes with...
...ALIEN AFFAIR, Hubbard...
...real threat is psychological. The new American wilderness stirs up the high-tech tourists. Hooper Allbright, head of a mail-order empire, videotapes an alien nymphet darting through the woods. Back at Coldharbor, his apartment complex in New York, he reruns the pictures and falls in love with the lithe image. Moura Allbright, Hooper's sister-in-law, returns to the city with a desire to locate the unknown father of her son. Some 15 years before, she conceived after two years of copulating with a masked inseminator who had been eugenically selected at a "contact clinic." Fizzy, Moura...
...million blacks in South Africa who are technically residents of four tribal homelands that chose to become so-called independent states: Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Venda. Despite government pledges that they could be granted citizenship in both their homelands and South Africa, they are now treated as aliens who must apply for residence and work permits whenever they move. Although the government promised not to enforce these alien requirements while negotiations over dual citizenship continue, it could do so at any time. The white-owned newspaper Business Day protested this pullback from reform, declaring, "Those gullible folk who took President...
...cake itself came in two slices: first career, then marriage. In the seven years since she won her first starring role, in Alien (in 1977 she had a walk- on role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall), she has made seven films, including two that are still unreleased in the U.S.: Half Moon Street with Michael Caine and the French-language One Woman or Two with Gerard Depardieu. Weaver the stage artist refuses to condescend to cinema. "There's a purity in film work," she observes. "It takes courage, leaping into the void every...