Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reflecting the restive national mood, the Experience and Future Group, an unofficial forum of intellectuals and liberal Communist Party members, sent a 67-page paper to General Wojciech Jaruzelski assessing military rule. Labeling martial law "an alien and unknown act in Polish traditions," the document called on the authorities to form a genuine partnership with society. Concluded the report: "After 100 days of martial law, it is evident that what happened between August 1980 and December 1981 cannot be erased from human memory and from the life of society." The newswalkers of Swidnik and millions of Poles like them seem...
...Alien Roundup...
...field expedition for earth flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns. Before the errant extraterrestrial can return to his comrades, the spaceship abruptly ascends and little E.T. is left, alone and friendless, in an alien climate, where he can never flourish and may not survive...
...extraterrestrial beings are "bug-eyed monsters," or BEMs, to science-fiction buffs. And, sure enough, the eyes of the alien creature in Steven Spielberg's E. T. are very large and prominent. At first startled glance-and he takes some getting used to-you could call...
Rambaldi's monsterpiece is about the height of a four-year-old child, with a large, lumpy, pulsating skull, a neck that extends or retracts according to mood, skin that is a very alien gray-green when E.T. is healthy, and long, marvelously graceful arms with four-digit hands. He is very strange and complex in his repertory of emotions, although he is allowed only a ten-word speaking vocabulary (his voice is that of an 82-year-old woman with some electronic distortion). He is onscreen most of the time, and he takes a firm, sure hold...