Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasing partisanship and uncertainpolitical future must appear alien to Cambridge--aone-party city whose charter declares that therewill be no partisanship...
...ALIEN 3 IS SET IN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY prison at the far, forgotten end of the universe. This dark landscape bespeaks an ambition to rise above sequel status. So does a glum, distancing story, in which Sigourney Weaver's Warrant Officer Ripley, depressed and, yes, alienated, feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless...
...those powers go with their strengths. Yes, you will add, but the Japanese keep telling us they're different. Indeed they do, and try to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. But Americans, who start many of their sentences with the words "Americans . . .," may not find this so alien...
...about," he says, "simply because I don't know my way around the codes. But the actual Japanese method, the actual approach, I think I'm quite at home with -- because I've been brought up in middle-class England." Japan, as Wilde might have said, is only as alien as ourselves...
...summer just produces more predictable hits, mostly sequels. "Hollywood is front loading the summer with blockbuster sequel products," notes Martin Grove, film analyst for the Hollywood Reporter, "which virtually guarantees that the early summer business will be strong." Lethal Weapon 3 leads the assault this weekend, , followed quickly by Alien 3 (May 22), the Red October sequel, Patriot Games (June 5) and Batman Returns (June 19), the last easily the season's most anticipated and expensive movie...