Word: alienness
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...rejected. NBC later put The Cosby Show on the air, and it became the most popular series of the 1980s. The producers' next breakthrough hit, Roseanne, landed on ABC only after NBC turned it down. And last season they tried to interest ABC in a wacky sitcom about an alien family on Earth. When the network dithered over scheduling it, the duo took 3rd Rock from the Sun to NBC--where it became the season's only unqualified...
...University of Minnesota. At that institution the Department of French was one of 45 departments in the College of Liberal Arts. Forty-nine thousand students ambulated over a space that occupied the two sides of the Mississippi River and that, as a commuter campus, turned into a alien zone every evening. The campus is bordered by I-94, the east-west highway that goes from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain...
...Hughes a thing or two about eccentricity. He shares Perot's elephantine ego, endless self-righteousness, grandiose political ambitions and deep-seated belief that people are plotting against him. Some of his notions--like the mystical importance of the number 19 and his claim to have taken trips on alien spacecraft--are as cockamamie as Hughes' obsession with germs. As far as I know, neither Perot nor Hughes ever pretended to speak on behalf of God. For Farrakhan and his followers, such miracles are strictly routine...
...part, has generally observed a nonaggression pact. Other than a nasty reference on Saturday Night Live and one on Rush Limbaugh's TV show, Chelsea has been left to lead a normal life. Even tabloids like the Weekly World News, which bannered Hillary's adoption of an alien baby, have resisted sending paparazzi to stalk the First Child...
...lining up under the banner of fighting terrorism to give police more authority to invade every citizen's already much abused privacy? America has experienced this kind of legislative reaction before, and never with good results. In John Adams' day, hysteria over possible war with France produced the oppressive Alien and Sedition Acts. And in Harry Truman's day, hysteria over communism led to an ugly series of loyalty measures that launched the nation on a tortured search for demons. JOHN W. CHUCKMAN Manotick, Canada...