Word: pod
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Think my roommate is a pod-person, but I'm not sure. He just doesn't look at me in that special way anymore. There's no emotion. And he keeps telling me not to go in the basement or to look under my bed. He always wants to know when I'm going to sleep too. There are several four-foot-long green milkweed pods in his room. I don't know what's going on. Help me, Norma. Am I about to be snatched? in Stoughton...
...there some acrimony behind the scenes? Not quite, an unreliable source tells Dartboard. All those puns about the Provost being a "green" administrator weren't so far off. Green, says our source, was taken over by one of those pesky alien pod-people that seem to proliferate in the Yard this time of year. As we all know, the green gook that Harvard sprays all over the dirt is not, as the administrations claim, Hydraseed, but an anti-pod-person pesticide. But this year, they came a little early, and Provost Green was the first victim. President Rudenstine and staff...
...subtextual , on the other hand, is where you point out that the movie is not actually about what everyone thought it was about but is rather about something that no one would have guessed in a million years. For example, the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is not about pod people, but is really about Communist expansionism...
...wild and plays out 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...
...also coaxed top performances from his cast, especially the lead actresses. Tilly, with her otherworldly glamour, is a New Age evil stepmother; in her sleepytime voice, pod threats have the thrill of seduction. And Anwar (Al Pacino's dance partner in Scent of a Woman) plays Marti as honest, balky, easily bruised; already she has the edgy assurance of a pro slated for stardom. Her soft lashes and wary eyes, which make her look as if she has just been prodded awake into a nightmare, key this haunting film's message: that life has to be faced with eyes wide...