Word: weaverization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snowball: Sigourney Weaver, Aliens. Think about it. Think about what this nomination says about the taste and integrity of Academy members. Think about a screaming baby alien exploding out of Weaver's chest halfway through her acceptance speech: "I'd like to thank my parents, and my high school elocution teacher, and...Oh, excuse me, I must have gas...What the...Oh, my God!...SQUEEEEA...
...tottering example of long-term marital pathology. Peter and Muriel have not touched each other in ten years; Charlie is a night-after-night drunk; Gwen is restive in the presence of her ineffectual husband. These people find their routines interrupted by the return of Alun and Rhiannon Weaver, friends from their youth who have decided to move back home. Alun has made a name for himself in England as a televised authority on the land of his birth ("I peddle Wales to the Saxons"). For her part, Rhiannon comes back to find two old flames still stirred...
ALIENS Tall, wondrous Sigourney Weaver battles tall, terrible monsters in James Cameron's technically awesome blend of the horror, sci-fi and service- comedy genres...
...permanent injunction issued Tuesday, Judge Haskell C. Freeman ruled that administrators must cease removing the signs and entering the students' rooms to force them to do so. Under the injunction, the school is also prohibited from taking disciplinary action against the four students--Yosef Abramowitz, Anthony Bedard, Jeffrey Weaver and George Lundskow--who violated university policy by displaying anti-apartheid signs and others on the outside of their dormitories...
...other students subsequently hung bannersbearing a variety of anti-apartheid messages,including "Tyranny Reigns When Good People DoNothing" and "Death to Apartheid." Weaver, amember of the ROTC, hung an American flag. Schoolofficials removed the banners almost immmediately...