Word: outerness
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...about these seeds that drift through outer space, take root on earth and grow into large pods, each of which contains a simulacrum of a human being. When fully ripened, the pod is capable of replacing, with no one the wiser, the individual it perfectly replicates physically. The trouble is that the pod people are the living dead, incapable of emotion or strong belief. In the old movie, a smalltown doctor and his lady bravely, exhaustingly and with no assistance tried to resist the takeover. In its day, Invasion made a moving, and exciting film. Among other things...
...Scott H. Mittman '79, who were riding the Leverett House G-tower elevator when the power went out, found the blackout a rather disconcerting experience. While Badini and Mittman succeeded in prying open the inner doors of the elevator, Benjamin A. Berman '79 unsuccessfully tried to open its outer doors. The two were caught in the elevator until the power resumed...
Before the march began, thousands of the shah's troops withdrew to the outer section of the city to avoid provoking a confrontation with the demonstrators. Other troops ringed the downtown area with roadblocks to contain the crowd...
Minutes later, White slipped into a normally locked side door to the mayor's second-floor suite of offices. This entry let him avoid the busy outer reception room. White asked Moscone's secretary, Cyr Copertini, if he could see her boss. Moscone's press aide, Mel Wax, passed by, saw White and sent word that Horanzy and his family should wait in an outer office to avoid a collision with the disappointed former supervisor. Wax figured that White was making a last-minute plea to get his job back. Said Wax: "I didn't talk...
...last night's Crimson basketball win, Fordham's Tom Penders seemed like the typical young college coach--the frisonne hairstyle, mod haberdashery, and courtside histrionics. But beneath that outer tinsel is the real tinsel--the alluring glitter of big-time basketball. Penders, the consummate recruiter, wants to create a national power. While he'll have to bide his time with the lowly Rams, his past performances indicate his goal is not out of reach...