Word: ufo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time travel is the thinking person's UFO, an improbability that nevertheless resonates with mysterious and sometimes marvelous possibilities. But it has become a rather tired topic. It is almost as hard nowadays to create fictional vehicles capable of reawakening childhood reveries about zapping through the years as it is to invent a scientific instrument actually able to journey up and down the old continuum...
...disillusioned party member views state sponsorship of psychic and UFO studies as a new sort of official opiate. Says he: "They've been feeding us rubbish about the dream of Communism for years, and we now see they were lying. At least this gives us something new to dream about." So the next time aliens approach and ask for directions, point them toward Moscow. The Soviets need them more than ever...
Dramatized "re-creations" of real-life events are suddenly everywhere. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair, Fox's America's Most Wanted and NBC's Unsolved Mysteries use them to re-enact just about everything from grisly murders to purported UFO sightings. Now the technique has entered a region some thought sacrosanct. It is the centerpiece of two network prime-time news shows: NBC's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (which drew good ratings in three outings in late summer and will return for three more this season) and the just-introduced Saturday Night with Connie Chung, on which Jones appeared...
...discovered Ted in a compromising costume with another woman and responded by trashing their condo: microwaving his football, toasting his funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer in my pool." Well, a UFO actually, with three horny, color-coordinated aliens (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans) itching to spend the night. Valerie had better listen to her cute boss Candy (Julie Brown): "Sit down. Relax. Have a mental margarita...
...want to go on the UFO and you need a break from Hurricanes, there is another amazing phenomenon you shouldn't miss--the casino. There are at least two major gambling establishments in Nassau, one in Cable Beach and one on Paradise Island...