Word: alienness
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...civil rights problem was alien to me,"Lenzner says. "If I had been exposed to theproblem and had more time to think about how toresolve it, I might have been more effective thanI...
...sure that people were entertained," says Jim Patterson, spokesman for the Canada pavilion. On a nice day there are almost certain to be gobs of children cavorting in a playground sea of plastic orange balls or in UFO H20, a humorous collection of splashing fountains made to look like alien space objects. The Land Plaza, with everything from a Singapore trishaw and a Philippine jeepney to a Hong Kong double-decker bus, provides comparable delights. Children, and more than a few adults, climb all over the extravagantly colored vehicles and honk their horns as if they had never heard such...
...provides no adult's-eye view of teen problems. Instead, he gets spookily in sync with the swooning narcissism of adolescence: that teachers are torturers, that parents are sweet but don't quite understand, that friends and lovers are two distinct species, one domestic, one alien, that I feel all these things I can never express, that there must be someone out there who will love me to pieces. Hughes give teens what they want in life and movies: romance, passion, pleasure, commitment--and a little sex. His pictures are like teen psychotherapy with a guaranteed happy ending...
Scott is a past master of artifice. In Alien (1979) he devised a grungy spaceship through which a ravenous parasite moved and mutated. In Blade Runner (1982) he created a city that existed simultaneously in the 21st century ! and the film noir 1940s. Legend offers more of the hermetic same. Virtually all of the movie's "outdoor" sequences were shot in the caverns of England's Pinewood Studios. The fairy dust that caresses the heroine is borne on wind machines. Most of the actors play their roles (goblins, elves, trolls) inside elaborate masks. The whole idea is to turn image...
Muffled lives explode in such understatements. Jhabvala adopts the identities of characters from an alien culture without romanticizing or condescending. Her spare prose leaves little room for metaphor; her India emerges out of small specifics, accretions that summon up heat, hope, squalor and a vast expanse of sky. These stories do not demystify India; they pay the place tributes of empathy and grace...