Word: alienment
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Cases such as this, while nominally related to taxes, bear a striking resemblance to the ordeals of Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Joseph Smith, and Mary Baker Eddy, all of whom appeared hardly less alien and threatening to many in the early days of their movements than Reverend Moon appears to many today...
...bemused to read that a member of Israel's Knesset feels that U.S. aid is causing Israel to lose its independence. He should know that many Americans resent the billions given to his country from our taxes. An alien theocracy is the antithesis of American democracy and all it stands...
...unrelenting focus on Gaston (played by Chris Moore) is evident once the lights go up. He wanders awkardly through a room of amorphous red shapes. Gradually, the red cloth is torn off and the Renaud home emerges, but his disorientation in the still-alien household during this opening scene works to underscore Swartz' intention to keep the audience as close to Gaston as possible, revealing nothing to the spectator before it becomes directly significant for the central character...
...question is whether the employer sanctions would do much more than spur a great expansion of trade in false documents. Already, phony driver's licenses sell in Los Angeles barrios for $40 to $50 each. "Green cards," attesting that the bearer is an alien legally permitted to work in the U.S., are forged in such quantities that they can be bought for only $12 apiece. Anyone who can get a false birth certificate and one other document, like a driver's license, can usually get a Social Security card with little trouble. In sum, critics contend, Simpson-Mazzoli...
...very few films become hits because of their originality; Rhinestone harbors no such subversive motives. It means to breed familiarity without contempt by putting two proven stars through paces as measured as any in a sitcom plot. Sly visits Dolly's Tennessee home town and feels like an alien among bohunks (as in TV's Green Acres). Dolly tangles with her alcoholic ex-singing partner, who is also her ex-husband (as in Tender Mercies). Dolly teaches Sly to move country-style (as in the Let's Hear It for the Boy sequence from Footloose). Sly belts...