Word: alienations
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...conferees applauded when Lehrman read words from President Reagan: "Around the world we see people joining together . . . to free their nations from outside domination and an alien ideology . . . Their goals are % our goals." Lehrman did not point out that this letter was not from Reagan to the new allies, but from Reagan to "Dear...
...They like space-cadet imagery, sieved through childhood memories of the tail-finned and Lurexed '50s. They are chirpy and cheery, or woozily pseudoromantic; or, if neither of these, then vacantly tough. Their work is all pose and no position. Thus, from Kenny Scharf's mural of Silly Putty aliens in a galactic landscape of squiggles and David Wojnarowicz's repulsive Attack of the Alien Minds, through the visual fatuities of Rodney Alan Greenblat and Jedd Garet, the biennial celebrated what its curators evidently took to be the mood of the moment: glitz, camp, childishness and art as fashion, served...
...fleeing the northern cold to Asian walking catfish to South ; American water hyacinths, southern Florida has suffered through many invasions by persistent foreigners threatening to displace native flora and fauna. The vulnerable peninsula, devasted last month by wide-ranging brush fires, continues to be under attack, this time by alien trees: the Brazilian pepper and the Australian pine and Melaleuca, all amazingly prolific and fast spreading. Laments Julia Morton, a University of Miami botanist: "These trees are entirely too healthy. They don't have natural enemies here...
...second time in just over two years that Nigeria had ordered an exodus of alien residents. In 1983 some 2 million illegal immigrants were unceremoniously booted out of the country. At that time, there were reports that some of the foreigners were beaten and robbed as they tried to make their way out of Nigeria. Some diplomats in Lagos said they believed that the latest order was issued for much the same reasons as in 1983: a troubled economy that continues to be badly hurt by depressed crude-oil prices. At a time when jobs are scarce and prices...
...fuel the line and cry for draconian law and order than to give the business community a financial stake in increasing the number of prisoners? Although Texas and New Mexico have already passed legislation authorizing private prisons, no states are actually using them. However, private companies do operate alien detention centers (primarily for Haitians) for the federal government, and there have already been at least two instances of neglect and violence against prisoners that probably would have not have happened in state institutions...