Word: alienating
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With a total of seven votes from his blockmates, Shenk-Boright topped Homer Simpson and Alf, "the cat-loving alien" for the most write-in votes...
Gusmorino and Lee also successfully defeated "Devil's Beastchild," Mickey Mouse, Santa Claus, Karl Marx, James Joyce, Britney Spears, Mr. Rogers, Red Sox player Nomar Garciaparra, "Gonzo, the chicken-loving vaguely humanoid puppet" and "Alf, the cat-loving alien...
...pictures on the inside of cylindrical pieces of film, distorting and stretching the images. The results are astounding. Mardozo's nude self-portraits are veritable fleshscapes in which body parts ooze up and into each other. They are at once ancient, even familiar and at the same time terrifyingly alien. In some ways Mardozo's work is less concerned with the problematic relationship between artistic representation and the female form than the other pieces in the show. "Nudes to the Nth" leaves behind identifiable femininity for a rich, mysterious world where skin is no longer an indication of human presence...
...just products and components but the factory itself--creating a digital manufacturing system for the New Economy. One thing that caught his attention was the problem of the powder press. He wondered if it was possible to update the Industrial Age brute. Before he could venture onto this alien turf, however, he knew he needed help--and realized he could get it from his younger brother Glenn...
...NEXT QUESTION Which, of course, brings up the issue of how we mere human inventors are going to keep up. As an inventor, I have more than a passing interest in this question. My view, however, is that these developments do not represent an alien invasion of intelligent machines. They are emerging from within our human/machine civilization, and the intelligence we are creating is both derivative of and an extension to our human intelligence. We are already placing today's generation of intelligent machines in our bodies and brains, particularly for those with disabilities (e.g., cochlear implants for the deaf...