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Word: centauri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complain? Under my new name ALF -- for Alien Life Form -- I'm now a bigger star than Alpha Centauri. My half hour on Monday nights on the NBC-TV network sometimes hits the Top Ten in the Nielsen ratings (just like ours, except recorded electronically instead of with marshmallows and thumbtacks) and is playing in about 50 countries. The show is the story of my life in a typical suburban household -- working dad, nonworking mom, teenage daughter just out of braces, chirpy son who dresses up as a vegetable for the school play, and yours truly, the alien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...London," she says. "And I wondered what these people had to do with the English Channel." But Cronin was soon immersed in sessions with a jolly Manhattan channeler named Bob Johnson, who served as her conduit for a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with beings on the stars of Alpha Centauri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 7, 1987 | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Johnson, 54, a gentle, white-haired man who practices his spiritual arts in a modest apartment in midtown New York City. Now his eyes are half shut, unseeing, and when he next speaks, in a strangely clipped Irish accent, he represents a "tutelage" of spectral beings from Alpha Centauri, the nearest of the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...live up there on Alpha Centauri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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