Word: vegas
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...South Pacific atoll of Mururoa last week to preside over a new round of underground nuclear tests. Accompanying him were Defense Minister Paul Quilès and a 21-member party of parliamentarians and journalists. Hours before the blast, officials announced that the French navy had seized the Vega, a ketch owned by the Greenpeace environmental organization, after the protest ship had entered French territorial waters near the test site. By week's end the four crew members were being taken to a nearby atoll and were awaiting expulsion...
...nice place to live, it is not a good place for aliens like me to visit. If true, it is a pity because we are almost neighbors, only 26 light-years away. Tell me, please, what sort of welcome might we expect? Sincerely yours, Mega from Vega (Planet...
Dear Mega from Vega (Planet IV), Thank you for your letter, which has caused a certain amount of comment in these corridors (not to mention a scramble for the postage stamp). As it happens, there are lots of aliens visiting onscreen this summer: the godlike creatures of Cocoon, who put youthful zip back into the geriatric set; the vampires of Life-force; and the adorable, if grotesque, brats of Explorers, who steal Dad's jalopy, zoom around the galaxy and help three young earthlings build their own backyard spaceship. And of course everybody's favorite extraterrestrial has come back...
...Carole King-style folk - is also a stylistic melting pot. Kathleen Edwards Back To Me Were Edwards not Canadian, her second album of alt-country old-flame songs might be too vicious to take. But because she sings with a sleepy, almost polite affectlessness (like Beth Orton or Suzanne Vega), the moments when Edwards eviscerates cads with such lines as "You say you like me in your memory/ You've got to be f___ing kidding me" sound less like insults than laments. She would like to be rough around the edges, but she knows softness is her best feature...
WERE EDWARDS not Canadian, her second album of alt-country old-flame songs might be too vicious to take. But because she sings with a sleepy, almost polite affectlessness (like Beth Orton or Suzanne Vega), the moments when Edwards eviscerates cads with such lines as "You say you like me in your memory/ You've got to be f___ing kidding me" sound less like insults than laments. She would like to be rough around the edges, but she knows softness is her best feature...