Word: alienment
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He’s probably best known these days for his work in television, starring in NBC’s series Third Rock from the Sun. He won three Emmys for playing Dick Solomon, the high commander of a group of alien explorers, posing as a physics professor...
Coming from a man who has played an array of villains, an awkward alien, a gossip columnist and a priest, the vision of art Lithgow promotes is indeed an inclusive one: it spans not only a range of roles and disciplines, but also of participants...
...harsh productions, at once their greatest and most limiting aspect. The duo’s music stands a notch above the rest of the pack, with a punk slant that adds a much-needed shot of adrenaline and the compositional flair to match. The wonderfully alien “Glue Your Eyelids Together” wields its synths like guitars and “Turn Your Back” whines and squeals like no normal instruments would. They’re headbangers made for robots. “People, You Can Confuse” is brilliantly oppressive, sounding like circuits...
...curbing of civil liberties is not a new phenomenon. The Alien and Sedition Acts introduced by John Adams in 1798 almost entirely undermined the First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. “Unpatriotic activities”—broadly construed and ill-defined—were outlawed during the Civil War and World War I. Even World War II saw the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans. But all of those pieces of legislation died with the end of the conflict in question, and none lasted for longer than...
...early February, Schaffer drew a picture titled “Cocoon Me.” On the right side of the page there is a strange, alien figure. Merging with this figure on the left is a butterfly in full flight. “It was a ‘foreshadowing’ picture,” Schaffer says...