Word: outerness
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...example, the 1993 Ig Nobel in Psychologywent to John E. Mack, professor of Psychiatry atHarvard Medical School and David Jacobs of TempleUniversity. Their prize-winning conclusion wasthat people who believe they were kidnapped byaliens form outer space probably were...
...varies among ethnic groups, as does the degree of pain. In some African countries, it is only a piece of the clitoris that is cut off. In others, the labia minora are sliced away. Natural protuberances are viewed as ugly, the unchaste accoutrements of prostitutes. Elsewhere, the entire outer genitalia are removed and the two sides of the vulva sutured together until marriage, leaving only a tiny opening for the excretion of blood and urine. Infections and hemorrhaging are not uncommon; intercourse can be excruciatingly painful. The surgical methods are prescribed not by science but by a tradition that expects...
Everyone knows that the Crimson kind of sucked during the 1992-93 season. That team finished with a record of 6-20, and some games were such blowouts that they looked like reruns of Dream Team vs. Outer Mongolia...
...films are sold out weeks in advance); reporters snipe about the proliferation of cellular phones on Main Street. Even Redford, speaking to the filmmakers / gathered for the closing-night awards ceremony, felt obliged to take note of the "hype about cellular phones and jets. That's outer-space stuff. It doesn't mean anything . . . This festival is for you." Actually, the place could use a few more cellular phones; making telephone contact with anyone at Sundance is a festival of frustration...
...every dreamer's scenarios of fear fulfillment. But in his 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney had an even spookier idea: that sleep is when the sentry of common sense nods off and allows our enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing the U.S. (Us) of its ragged individualism...