Word: alienations
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...main road." McCarthy's reflections begin with a recollection of her colleague Philip Rahv, longtime editor of Partisan Review. Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with it. His resistance to swimming with the tide, his mistrust of currents, were his strength...
Speaking about his experience in America, the illegal alien said that many like him are afraid of seeking medical treatment at hospitals or asking policemen for directions for fear of deportation...
Shooting around Rockport, Texas, Malle must have realized that he too was an alien intruder--a rich Frenchman with a glamorous wife (Candice Bergen) pleading the case for a Vietnamese underdog. But this foreigner was the right person to tell this abrasive story, and to capture it in warm colors and cold blood...
Plimpton compared his piece to Orsen Welles' War of the Worlds, a 1930's radio broadcast of alien invaders, which many New Yorkers believed, and added that it had been inspired by similar "wish fulfillment" articles he wrote last summer for the Olympics...
Divine is a female impressionist, not a female impersonator. His art begins with a taste for drag and ends with a squeaky voice. Since all things human are alien to him, he lacks both the affection and the understanding that might make his sexual satire work. Something similar might be said of his new vehicle. Director Paul Bartel and Writer Philip John Taylor neither know nor care enough about horse operas to spoof them well, although a few veterans of the form (Tab Hunter among them) know enough to keep their faces straight. The plot has to do with recovering...