Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild Zontar from the planet X-13 landed on Mt. Auburn St. Thursday and asked me what a "television sitcom" was. I told it about "The Cosby Show." It asked me what an "action-adventure movie" was, and I pointed it to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It wanted to know about newspaper comic strips, and I showed it the latest collection of "Calvin and Hobbes," Yukon...
That neglect may stem from indifferent fellow passengers on this planet or, more seriously, eternity. Updike does not want to conclude that his -- or anyone's -- existence means nothing in the long run. His belief in God, his Sunday church-going, his hope for some form of a hereafter are all discussed and underline how unconventional his fiction has been by contemporary standards...
...former member of the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the International Economic and Environmental Subcommittee, Evans now leads a student study group called "The Search for a Livable Planet." As a fellow, he is available to undergraduates and graduates and participates in brown bag lunch programs. He also speaks at University events on invitation...
...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...
...Kreel, an alien race, discover an arsenal of superweapons on the planet DQN 1196, and they decide to use them for a violent rampage against their Klingon enemies. With interstellar war imminent, the Federation intervenes, offering to act as an intermediary. The Enterprise becomes the host for delegations from both sides, transporting them to the planet to discover the origin of the weapons...