Word: alien
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...philistine. After all, the Weimar republic was something of a laboratory of modernity--it represents a self-conscious break with the culture that nurtured Otto von Bismarck and his moustached ilk. In 1926, in fact, the Reichstag voted for a censorship program that would suppress Schmutz and the alien, commercial cosmopolitanism that are so prevalent in Weimar visual culture...
...Academy Award-winning actor F. MURRAY ABRAHAM destined to be Mr. Roarke? Both hosts of Fantasy Island, Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell, have also played villains in Star Trek movies. Now Abraham has donned the latex for Star Trek: Insurrection. He plays Ru'afo, an alien Peter Pan. "Ru'afo's like so many of us who never want to grow old," says the actor, "but he takes it to terrible extremes, like some of these awful face-lifts you see in Hollywood." His own facial regimen--four hours of makeup daily--did have its perks: "Being really ugly...
Waldergreen Associates is a small, recently-formed consulting company with a diverse approach to solving management problems worldwide. Its founder and president, Robert Waldergreen, dropped out of Columbia University two months before graduation to start Waldergreen Associates, after the antenna which had been implanted in his skull by alien voyagers began picking up signals sent from beyond the solar system. Thousands of light years away in the star system Krion, a fleet of heavily-armed space cruisers began their slow, intergalactic march towards our sun. If these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with...
Cathy Collins' first memories are of knowing that she was adopted. The hardships of childhood--the difficulty of communicating with her parents, the cruelty of other children--all fed her belief that she was unwanted, her sense of being alien and unreal. She began abusing drugs and alcohol as an adolescent, but by freshman year discovered a better release. Using a knife or a razor, she would methodically slice open her arms. "A main part of it was to know I was real," she says. "With the blood flowing down my arms, I was real...
...Running Man, Ventura's Captain Freedom is an gladiator-turned TV commentator (in a deft poke at today's NFL jocks-in-the booth culture) who hunts, and then grudgingly respects, Ah-nold. In Predator (1987), he's a gruff special-forces type who hunts a alien in the jungle, and grudgingly respects his commander, Ah-nold. And