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...series isn't appreciably better than the movie after which no sequels need have been made, and necessarily worse. The sensibility that led to making the ordinary world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water is missing. Who wants to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through a creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and horrific outer space being Salad-Shot through a window? O, fair alien, we hardly knew...
...sensibility that led to making the ordinary, world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water release a key shock point of Alien--this is missing. I don't want to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and most horrific outer space being being Salad-Shot through a window...
...Music, they displayed little awareness of how little difference down-tempo songs and complicated arrangements made to the record's sound. It wasn't bad (wasn't terrible, anyway) but people who bought the album, bought the hype and subsequently bought the back-catalogue noticed that Mac McCaughan's ragtag quarter sounded like a Superchunk cover band...
...hunters who had hit the wrong house. The five, who were all captured and arrested over the following three days, carried papers indicating they had been looking for a California fugitive, who seems to have had no connection to the dead couple or anyone else in the house. The ragtag crew of bounty hunters included Michael Martin Sanders, 40, convicted in 1978 on a weapons charge and in 1982 of retaliating against a murder witness. "Calling yourself a bounty hunter does not give you a license to kill," said Maricopa County prosecutor Richard Romley, who has filed second-degree murder...
...long ago, scientists would never have relied on such a ragtag band, or such low-rent equipment, to do their fieldwork. But lately that's changed. With the contraction of federal science budgets and the expansion of the World Wide Web, private research is going decidedly public. From astronomy to epidemiology to archaeology, more and more professionals are finding that when you're looking for lab assistants to collect good data at a bargain price, you can't beat the amateurs on the Internet...