Word: alienness
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...government classifies Terzi as an excludable alien, which allows him to travel outside a 25-mile radius New York only with special permission. Terzi has been allowed to travel to Massachusetts to vacation, but never to speak publicly...
...same stereotypes for the human face and body, for houses and dogs, steering wheels and tables, and everything else that he puts in his big, clean, post-Hopperish spaces. The idea of drawing as scrutiny of a subject, as a struggle with its strangeness and resistances, is quite alien to the pharaonic prettiness of his art. Of the structure, weight, pathos and energy of the human body he has no sense at all, and one result is his inability (shown in paintings like His Behind the Back Pass, 1979, two wooden Frisbee players on a lawn) to do a simple...
...Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace, made thousands of recommendations on how to slash the U.S. budget deficit. Since he delivered his report to President Reagan in January 1984, Grace has waged a personal crusade against the Government's spendthrift habits. His company recently hired Movie Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) to create a TV commercial that would alert viewers to the horrors of huge deficits. The result is The Deficit Trials, 2017 A.D., a futuristic fantasy that cost about $300,000 to produce. Set in a mammoth courtroom, it shows a twelve-year-old prosecutor trying his elders...
...give the Patriots a fighting chance. For three straight weeks, the underdog Pats have played on alien turf, and each time they have found a way to win. Against Miami, New England should have lost. But the team stuck together and stuck...
...Skinnerean flourish, computers have taken over the roles once filled by biological units called parents. Electronic gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...