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...movie has its fighters, its leaders, its guns, its synthetic person, its space ship technology, and its hideous slimy monsters. But the film also accurately portrays human interaction and emotion, rare for a movie of this genre. And you don't need to have seen its predecessor Alien to enjoy this sequel...
...counterproposal by President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party's Old Guard, some of whom are still suspicious of the 55-year-old leader. Television...
...wants to fight fascism, so they line up behind Reagan on the left flank of the anti-Soviet war drive. Because the ISO does not defend the Soviet Union against imperialist attack, they are impotent in the face of its domestic reflection: union-busting and race terrorism. The most hideous recent example of race-terror was the cold-blooded, state-organized murder of 11 members of the MOVE commune in Philadelphia by Reagan and his Black democratic front-man mayor Wilson Goode. However, despicable Joe Menn can joke in his piece about Klan-style "sordid and unhealthy aspects of cross...
...second damning clue came to me one day as I was walking through a local K-Mart and came face to face with Father Christmas sitting on a hideous, gaudy throne, and holding two squalling children in headlocks as they had their pictures taken. I accosted him and demanded to know what he was doing wasting his time in a second-rate retail store in Roanoke, Va., with Christmas so close at hand. "Second-rate Santas have to bring in the dough somehow," was all he could manage...
...awful," I thought. "Someone grabbed these hideous yellow slippers from a poor old man's feet just for an ad in a running magazine...