Word: alienated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...been asked about Alien for almost twenty years now. Looking back, do you feel like you can take credit for inventing a new type of heroine...
Human beings, by nature, are a skeptical bunch. Fads and le dernier cri (the trendy French for "the latest trends," ironically) aside, we are often hesitant to accept concepts which are new and alien, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the group of Aristotelian professors who made the following pronouncement to Galileo after he claimed to have discovered Jupiter's moons using a telescope: "[They] are invisible to the naked eye and therefore do not exist." Or the snappish response of Warner Brothers' founder H. M. Warner, who retorted in a 1927 interview, "Who the hell wants to hear...
...with a sign reading WILL WORK FOR DISTRIBUTION. And in a move even Pakistan wouldn't attempt, producers offered pedestrians a ride in a van, then refused to pull over until they finished showing their movie. Four filmmakers, each with a movie about extraterrestrials, sent their actors dressed in alien costumes to accost people on the street. I had never realized how many scripts involve aliens and repeated use of the phrase anal probe...
...getting neurotic. The weather makes me, shall we say, existentially nervous. Partly, this may be a spinoff from the self-important millennium, which spilled inarticulate little anxieties here and there in the mind. The anticipation of the world crossing a line and changing irreversibly - transformed into an alien place where nature is haywire and old rules (even familiar cycles of seasons and temperatures) no longer apply - all that seems unofficially confirmed by wild meteorological swings...
MOST BAFFLING REQUEST "Please send me A.S.A.P. the story from a while back about the thing you can download to track alien waves from space...