Word: alienations
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Cannily commercial, Project X has almost too much old gold going for it: strands of The Miracle Worker, Fail Safe, The Elephant Man, Top Gun and the collected works of Steven Spielberg. Like E.T., this is the story of a childlike alien and his lonely human friend who must protect the creature, like a wise father with a brilliant, battered child, and then set it free. But Writers Stanley Weiser and Lawrence Lasker (WarGames) resist nearly every temptation to truckle, and Director Jonathan Kaplan (Heart Like a Wheel) finds each scene's emotional core while surrounding it with meticulous technique...
...stamp out the incentive for aliens to enter the U.S. illegally, the law cracks down on businesses that offer them jobs. Beginning June 1, every employer in America, from the Beverly Hills housewife who takes on a Mexican gardener to the Lower Manhattan garmentmaker who hires dozens of Chinese seamstresses, must become a kind of INS agent. Employers must demand such documents as a U.S. passport or birth certificate, proof of naturalization or a resident-alien card, and then complete an I-9 verification form for each employee...
...months after June 1, employers will risk only a citation for any violations. After that, they can be hit with penalties that range from $250 to $2,000 for each illegal worker hired. For repeated offenses, the fine will rise to as much as $10,000 for each illegal alien. Employers, however, cannot be fined for illegals hired before Nov. 6, 1986, the date on which the bill was passed...
...enchanting Beauty is about as difficult to come by as a formula for magic. Most of the women's roles are difficult and must be carried off with the sort of aristocratic elan that only technically strong performers can muster. The character dances and, above all, the mime are alien to many young performers, particularly Americans. Finally, the overall production needs a beneficent fairy of its own; The Sleeping Beauty is a miracle of scale and symmetry; glitz or vulgarity or plodding pedantry will turn it into a long night indeed...
...youth its scholars are often defensive, since they must not only conduct research, but also prove the validity of their discipline. They argue that male attitudes towards women have, until recently, prevented uniquely female perspectives from joining standard scholarship; as a result, they often have a political perspective alien to the Harvey Mansfields of this world. However, this in itself does not equate Women's Studies with "the study of left-handed people," as Mansfield would have...