Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elderly man lowered his newspaper and stared at her. The baby commenced wailing again, its mother sighed and stared out the window of the un-moving train. The girl shook her head at her watch. The auxiliary train came up behind the filled train and as it moved towards Kendall Square, the boy said, "Man, this is really rotten service...I can't believe she wanted us to pay for it. That just ain't fair...
...girl named Newt, played by the show-stealing Carrie Tern. At first, she is frightened to death, but gradually allows Ripley to get close to her. During the course of the movie, Ripley and Newt work together to protect each other from the monsters, developing a not-too-sentimental mother-daughter relationship...
...motherhood theme forms the basis for the movie's conflict. The aliens are the disgusting progeny of a huge, grotesque mama alien, enraged by the destruction of her babies by the earthlings. To revenge herself upon Ripley, the mother alien steals Newt away from...
...FIERY BATTLE, the two mothers face off in defense of their children. Mother alien rears up and snarls at Newt with her four sets of teeth as Ripley screams, "Get away from her, you bitch!" Their encounter takes the movie beyond the standard realm of good vs. evil, humanizing the conflict, and heightening its fear-inducing power...
...West is such a stickler for rules. So I cried to him, "Oh great arbiter of the West, please hear my cries. I pray to you have mercy (another great Western trait) on my soul and let me rejoin the just philosophical tradition that I learned at my mother's bosom. Your judgement is the right judgement Mr. President, and I obey your commands but now please reconsider. Please, pleeeze...." He didn't listen...