Word: martian
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Around the same time, a Crimson reporter referred to the traditional Korean music performed at an ethnic studies rally as "banging on drums and metal lids." An astute reader complained that such a description seemed like an anthropological description of a Martian ritual and not a celebration of the heritage of Harvard's Korean-Americans...
...save America from DENNIS RODMAN? He plays a Martian on 3rd Rock from the Sun! He does a risque lingerie commercial with a supermodel! He announces on TV that he's getting married, mystifying everyone including his stripper girlfriend! He shows up at a book signing in a wedding dress! He goes to Rome to make a movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme! All just a regular week or two at the office for the publicity terrier. Over at the Rodman Group (his manager has an 800 number, natch) they're unapologetic. "This is a small representation of things coming...
...came up with a little plant, we could detect that," says Norm Haynes, director of the Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But there's nothing we can send from Earth that can even begin to duplicate what the people who studied the Martian meteorite...
...anticipated last week's news by suggesting long ago that life on Mars takes the form of a supercilious ass who wants to disintegrate Earth with his "Iludium pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator" because Earth obstructs his view of Venus. Earthkind's hero, Bugs Bunny, snuffs out Marvin the Martian's modulator fuse and saves the world, a feat that, theologians agree, must rank slightly ahead of Daffy Duck's space exploration in quest of "Aludium Phosdex, the shaving-cream atom...
...WALSTON, SEVENTYISH, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA; Actor For a generation of Americans, Martians weren't little green men--they looked like Walston, who starred with the late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees), he took the extraterrestrial role of Bixby's Uncle Martin expecting the show to be a serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other...