Word: alien
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some are a bit florid, but the best tunes (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...
That he was there at all was due to James Baker, whom he had met at Commerce. Though the new chief of staff, Baker was something of an alien. He needed loyal, experienced professionals as a bulwark against right-wing rivals. Darman filled that role eagerly. Eagerly, but not comfortably. The older Reaganauts sometimes suspected him of ideological subversion. He in turn took a grandiose view of himself as an all-purpose antidote to the amateurism of some of his elders. "Every single thing that moved," he says, "I felt responsible for." His influence rose steadily...
...Kreel, an alien race, discover an arsenal of superweapons on the planet DQN 1196, and they decide to use them for a violent rampage against their Klingon enemies. With interstellar war imminent, the Federation intervenes, offering to act as an intermediary. The Enterprise becomes the host for delegations from both sides, transporting them to the planet to discover the origin of the weapons...
Astronomers have long believed that pulsars are produced by stellar explosions. Until now, though, no pulsar had been observed so soon after its birth. The first pulsar was discovered in 1967, its radio signals so regular that they were suspected of coming from an alien civilization. Several hundred pulsars have since been found...
...Philadelphia department-store clerk, Bundy claimed he spent his early years with a deranged grandfather who assaulted people, tormented animals and had an insatiable appetite for pornography. Bundy talked of being appalled after his first murder. "It was like being possessed by something so awful, so alien," he said. "But then the impulse to do it again would come back even stronger...