Word: humanoid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bouncy first single, Wannabe, has already debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard chart, tying a record set by Alanis Morissette for the highest debut ever for a single by a new act, and is climbing rapidly. The group's relentless musical onslaught resembles the onrush of the half-humanoid, half-machine Borg in Star Trek. The Spice Girls, with their mix of semifeminist values (motto: "Girl Power!") and robotic dance beats, keep pushing forward, demanding that listeners love them, join them. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated...
...OPERATING TABLE IN A small white room, a naked humanoid creature lies supine and inert--its stomach bulbous; its six fingers slightly curled; a deep, foot-long gash in its right leg. Two humans in white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie...
Heroic Professor of Classical Greek and Comparitive Literature Gregory Nagy is concerned with the socio-cultural implications of cross-walk wars. "If the signal is a defiant stopping humanoid in red and a cheerful walking humanoid in green, then I would not [press the button]," says Nagy. "There is not enough semiotic power," Semiotic power?" Anyone who took Heroes would know what I mean...
...Pumpkinhead II, due this fall, he plays a mayor protecting his city from a giant humanoid squash...
...host of other artists. Hilary Hansen's impressive set establishes itself as a force for the entire production, using colors that accentuate the nihilistic themes of Hamletmaschine: blood-red and the Ex's standard, black. The dour colors of the set are unexpectedly highlighted by a backdrop of humanoid figures dressed in vibrant shades of yellow, blue, green and white. The set's centerpiece: an obtrusive, enigmatic coffin/stage entrance for the cast...