I wondered how it could see without light, and it dawned on me, that the darkness was probably natural to the aliens. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the strangest thing about Momma, the thing that made some of the neighbors smile tightly and alienated all the rest, is Momma's rumored penchant for field hands—the stronger, the darker, the better. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Cytoplasm will flow easily from one to the other, the nuclei will combine, and it will become, for a time anyway, a single cell with two complete, alien genomes, ready to dance, ready to multiply. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swore I saw him grinning through his garish alien mask. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Extraterrestrial intelligence will be elegant, complex, internally consistent and utterly alien. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the library was on 85th Street, an alien land. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As inventor of more than one thousand radio effects, Nichols had created space-travel and alien sounds for the Buck Rogers radio show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

What if I stand out like an alien? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now they looked alien to her, squat and flat-faced, their black hair cropped unnaturally short. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My own stomach didn’t want to be part of me anymore—an alien tired of being locked up in my rib cage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was sure I knew the identities of the three aliens who attacked me, I couldn’t prove it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She felt a bolt of cold fear strike at her, because he was so massive and so alien. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was an alien geography that thrust outreaching along the water’s edge; a land of a thousand creeks, brown and turgid, but rich in the smell of the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I join the others, the pressure of Peeta's arm around my shoulders feels alien. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I ran through—and this is gonna sound silly—everything I would want an alien to know about me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The mood out of which a story was written was the most alien thing conceivable to them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Agers make all sorts of existence assertions: that ESP exists, that there have been instances of spoon bending, that spirits abound, that there are aliens among us, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like Prince Stellar of the Star Drivers, reunited with his alien dad after years and years. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But Ben stayed close to him, his chest almost against his father’s belly, their sweat commingling and their breaths crossing like two alien winds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet it’s like space aliens,” she said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It had to do with both aliens and yoga and was surprisingly addictive, but Twig refused to play it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They disavowed communism in ail its forms and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups” or “aliens” who had no natural place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chewed, swallowed, then pointed her fork at Becca and asked, "But if aliens do find it, won't they need a record player to play it on?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Barack and I were now too well-known to be rendered invisible, but if people saw us as alien and trespassing, then maybe our potency could be drained. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This general concept is called terraforming: the changing of an alien landscape into one more suitable for human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the old woman merely poked gently at the earth around the alien plant. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve watched all six episodes of Star Wars for his sake, so I could talk to him about the aliens and bounty hunters and all that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Or”—she leaned in close, squinted, and whispered—“what if he’s an alien sent down to probe us before the invading army attacks and eats all of our brains?!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We are equals at last, equal, alien, alone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Until even the plane looked alien as he passed it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Which, of course, had been full of aliens that liked to eat humans. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was an odious, alien, distasteful name, that just did not inspire confidence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Though he was not a pious man, the carving made him feel less alone here in this queer alien city, and it was to that he had turned in the black watches of night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I reasoned thus: Though English was my native tongue and America my native land, she, an alien, could operate a store and earn a living in a neighborhood where I could not even live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The abrupt stillness seemed alien and artificial, a little insidious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was dark and hot, and the alien whine of a million manic bees reverberated through the room like something out of a nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mindspeech was the only thing I had to give Estraven, out of all my civilization, my alien reality in which he was, so profoundly interested. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you can be an alien too, Space Boy.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though the reality and meaning of the Bible stories seemed vast and alien, I still found the stories enthralling, so I said: “The Bible stories are nice.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such an alien sound, so sudden and surprising, that Mae dropped her fork, and everyone looked up, startled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he always felt he was an alien and never a true resident of Budapest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was great commerce and discussion between each dance, often beyond the scope of my understanding, the whole room a very Babel of rich tongues and alien conversation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He brings his hand to his mouth and begins examining me less like I’m a space alien and more like he did that sculpture last night. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And nothing between them but the words of another alien, painfully translated from native sounds to foreign. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly found the more arcane sites: alien abduction, UFO sightings, and the supernatural. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Such strange creatures, all of them—they looked like aliens, almost. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, my voice comes out higher than I expected, and the Hebrew words sound alien, the way they did when I first started trying to learn all this. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He seemed to experience a near-catatonia when confronted by circumstances that yanked him out of his familiar geek existence and into alien environments. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the relief of getting a green card or becoming an American citizen, it’s easy to channel my days as an “illegal alien” and feel the anxiety all over again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her belly button had turned into an alien. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was like dodging back and forth from one dimension to another, a silent explosion of breaking through a sound barrier, a curious experience, like a quick dip into a known but alien water. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds up both of her hands, like perhaps I’m an alien from another planet and don’t know the meaning of the word hand. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, even though she kind of looked like an alien. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But on the floor of White County Hospital, he screamed in some anguished and alien language of bereavement. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But then I would've had to admit that I thought he might've been an alien, and that wasn't exactly the secret I was wanting to share. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was always a stranger to me, always somehow alien and remote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The user had to get the alien back to its home planet by passing a quiz. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugee's. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Worm” was also used to denote an enemy or a coward or anything alien to the Sparra. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A boy with lime-colored hair who looks like he’s channeling for an alien species dozes; two Goths in black velvet dresses and artfully torn pantyhose trade Mona Lisa smiles. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like alien ballerinas who danced without needing any music. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The secretary, however, convinced that both requests were violations of the nation’s Bill of Rights, to whose protection even aliens were entitled, refused to grant Palmer’s requests. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

First we talked about the quarrels and how I see them in a very different light these days, and then about how we’ve become alienated from our parents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Part of me wonders if the sluggers send pervy pics back to their home planet for their alien buddies to mock. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My swift rise to E’lir alienated me from most of the other students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a term applied to something alien, yet beloved. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so afraid he might die in some alien ocean thousands of miles from home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed mysterious people were trying to kill her with alien sound wave machines, so she would sleep in a tool shed to hide herself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His replacement, a man in tune with Palmer’s beliefs, wasted no time in granting him a warrant for the arrest of three thousand aliens, most of whom Palmer suspected of being Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He was an alien on this planet, and I was drawn to him for that reason. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was, in her eyes, some meaning I myself could never know and might not care to know: an alien, the rock broken free of the wall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gran stared at me as if I’d asked whether aliens had just landed on Earth and appointed Garfield as the new purrsident of the United States, with Snoopy as his VP. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was a freaky alien and there was absolutely no way to get home. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom heard it too, and now she’s studying me like I’m an alien bug. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was Johnny’s world, but now he walked through it an alien. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A completely alien yet very pleasant position for him to experience. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this Oskar I’m tucking in? Has an alien stolen his brain for experimentation?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The blog posts astonished him, they seemed so American and so alien, the irreverent voice with its slanginess, its mix of high and low language, and he could not imagine her writing them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And could he be sure that when their time came, the world they constructed would not be just as alien to him, Winston Smith, as the world of the Party? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She never believed the various diagnoses—she hadn’t believed I was being abducted by aliens either. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was like she was the front woman of a punk band and I was a pubescent alien. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lots of people got kidnapped by aliens on TV. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds like the name of a kind of crayfish, or of one of the aliens on my brother’s distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His alien kin have not only prepared him to pass but to surpass. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And all that time on my own, alien and isolate, without a soul I could trust. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you not understand that you are an indigent and unregistered alien? How do you intend to return to Karhide?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t believe the psychiatrists, she didn’t believe in aliens, but she always believed in me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

No sluggers greeted me; none poked at me or prodded my body with their strange alien instruments. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It means she’s probably not an alien robot clone, something I have suspected from time to time. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Who is he and what is he that, out of loneliness, he comes into the alien camp and assumes the voice and face of memory and stands among us, accepted and happy at last? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you possibly lose the one and only patient you’ve got? What happened—did aliens beam him up to their spaceship while you were on your coffee break?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dante kept telling the story about the man on the bus and the aliens in Roswell and how some had escaped to El Paso and were planning on taking over the transportation system. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the doctors took my bandages off, they discovered I’d been replaced by a small, ugly alien. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The words "illegal aliens" echoed through my head. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to that school. Only aliens go there.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But now these bodies are revealed in their true, upsetting light: alien and bizarre, hairy, squashy, monstrous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The foil feels light in my hand, which is good; yet, it also feels alien, unnatural. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were probably using their alien technology to spy on me, laughing their eyestalks off. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it unwise to air this information,” the anchor suggests, “given that these aliens might now go into hiding?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On two occasions, the contractor hired a group of Mexican aliens. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so completely foreign to his experience, I realized, that I must have seemed like an alien. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nor could he summon any help in this alien land, where nothing and no one was known to him and would come at his call. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With a sigh—frustration on top of deep weariness—he rested his brow on his hand and stared at the long sliver of alien metal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Above all, my manner of speech had seemed an alien thing to them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A photo of me sprawled on the shower floor—bound and green, wearing only a gray alien mask—had spread virally through SnowFlake, each new person who shared it heaping on derision. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

None of them had been to Coney Island in years, and it looked more like an alien planet than their childhood stomping ground. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The alien land laws prevented him from owning property, but he could lease the land, or make a tenancy deal and work it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a moment to notice, but hidden in the back stood an algae-skinned alien with marble-black eyes mounted on wobbly stalks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the recruit arrives he is plunged into an alien environment, and is enveloped in the situation 24 hours a day without relief. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a sketchbook open in front of him, and he looked like he was drawing a cross between a space alien and a girl in yoga pants. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And having to stop and correct myself, remind myself that I was in an alien, dangerous place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My phone was the only thing I owned that had survived our disaster at sea, but it was useless here, an alien object. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Because in case I forgot to mention, some of the pants wearers were vampires or aliens. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So these people were considered and treated as the dregs of society, aliens in the land of their birth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked as alien as anything Thomas could imagine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And not just aliens but illegal ones too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was fiercely racial in spite of his stupendous hatred of his race and he had a theory that marriage between two of alien races would result in mongrel children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the desolation of some alien sea breaking on the shores of a world unheard of. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an “alien” could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a “drug criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The aliens must have replaced him with a robot. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

An alien stuffed a pair of boxers into my mouth, while another bound my wrists together with tape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“In 3000 b.c. your aliens would have had a very limited number of options on the menu. And one of those options would have been the Norte Chico.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Set down with geometric precision at the cardinal points were four monumental slabs of the same alien metal as the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Not fear of the alien, the unearthly, not here. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Under the watchful eyes of my alien overlord, I witnessed the planet explode seven more times, but I refused to budge from my seat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A weird, completely alien feeling suddenly pierces my heart for a brief, fleeting moment. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He’s a creature more like myself: alien and apprehensive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He and she were growing up, growing older and further apart in this alien land to which they had never chosen to come. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Because of the alien who lay ill, not acting, not caring, in a room in Sassinoth, two governments fell within ten days. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The street the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing was so alien to creatures with wheels that the very thought of it horrified them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I feel like aliens won't want anything to do with us, not attack us or anything, if they knew what kinds of smells come out of teenage boys." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The garden was bursting with people, again in all their alien ways. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s an episode about space aliens!” said Abby, reading something off her phone. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Another important feature of the tournament was that Lancelot, with innocent idiocy, alienated the Orkneys finally and for good. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were empathetic because many of the Freedom Writers felt just as alienated and misunderstood as Klebold and Harris before they found their voices. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t stopped looking at me like I’m a stranger, like an alien has taken possession of her baby girl. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The terms sounded in public to remind me in private of the truth: I was not—in a cultural sense—a minority, an alien from public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My environment contained nothing more alien than writing or the desire to express one’s self in writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zorro cracked his whip at a trio of space aliens ahead of him in line. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, like, What’s this alien life form doing in my house? Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My brother’s ears are round, like dried apricots, or like the ears of the green-tinged, ovalheaded aliens from outer space he draws with his colored pencils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo looked up: at the shining citadel of alien blue metal floating in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The ship, as the cliché says, was very small, and on the ship, I was correspondingly even more tiny, so that one would think I would feel dwarfed, alienated in some way. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I woke up in what looked like an alien spacecraft. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly after his return to the United States in 1790, Jefferson began to harbor the foreboding sense that the American Revolution, as he understood it, had been captured by alien forces. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In one stroke, his misstep fractured his relations with the regents and alienated the faculty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Toby woke up confused, calling into the alien apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys seemed comfortable in their own skin; I felt like an alien. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Unless the aliens abduct me again, we’re all going to die in a couple of weeks.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If you were an alien who came to Earth to study its life- forms, you wouldn't even think the two of them were the same species. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She’s always driven like a terrified alien dropped on a new planet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A moment later every demo computer screen, monitor, phone, and tablet blinked, and their displays lit up with the picture of me covered in paint wearing the alien mask. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her mom and dad, together and apart, weirdly hovering over her hospital bed like aliens from movies even cornier than teenage family dramas. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The alien who had just walked out of his room was also the man he felt passionately enough about to strike with all the fervor he could summon up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new technologies and the settlement of alien habitats resulted from genetic mutations and environmental pressures more than from cultural initiatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This goes beyond the disappearance of your children. They are only the means by which alien spirits intend to conquer us. The Masks are involved and probably the Gondwannans, too.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The booth across from it is lime green, with little alien heads and UFOs outlined all over it in black paint. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a monkey’s hop across a strait, was the dark side of the moon, imagine what Canada was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The threatened prosecution of aliens also backfired on the Federalists, when Irish immigrants in New York and Germans in Pennsylvania, formerly staunch supporters of the Adams administration, went over to the Republicans in droves. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had been abducted by aliens. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps alien intentions are uncompromisingly benign, more like La Perouse than Cortes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This environment gives us more material resources and longer lives than those enjoyed by any previous generation, but it often makes us feel alienated, depressed and pressured. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these lads felt like targets of a new hunt for oddballs—suspects in a bizarre, systematic search for the strange and the alienated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an old rural town that has even a few bams, an alienated and microcosmic village within a large city. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From up close, she saw that the alien creature’s tentacles were actually made of words, tightly packed together, looping lazily over each other. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, they would be, but what would really be cool is beats, right? I mean, especially if some alien DJ got ahold of them." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Taylor Method's to zap out a duct through my shelter and kill the aliens from safety. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I think this is pretty funny, having just had the alien thing going on in my head, but I keep my amusement to myself.The stockroom is eerily silent. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Under the touch of his hands, Jonas had found himself suddenly in a place that was completely alien: hot and windswept under a vast blue sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So, tell me about these aliens of yours.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One of the main commodities returned on those voyages of centuries ago were travelers’ tales,* stories of alien lands and ex otic creatures that evoked our sense of wonder and stimulated future exploration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the students already at risk, already suffering, have become suspects, linked in various thoughtless ways to mass murder and—consequently—more alienated than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the sunlight almost gone now, the hills of metal looked like something on an alien planet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Violet stares at him like he’s speaking an alien language, then turns to me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, some people would claim that sightings of UFOs are evidence that we are being visited either by aliens or by people from the future. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow glitters under an alien sun in a million points of light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One human in the story, the hero, figured out he could identify the fallen angel-cannibal aliens by examining their naked backs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had decided that it was where the aliens King Blaze and Queen Misteria lived. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Someone even suggests that Sandy was abducted by aliens that swooped down and stole him away into the stars. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

However, I think that any visit by aliens or people from the future would be much more obvious and, probably, much more unpleasant. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like an alien fallen to earth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was going to have an uncle who was sometimes abducted by aliens. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Especially since “easy” and “money” are new and completely alien concepts to me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In my father’s science fiction book, the one that caused such a tremendous stir, all the aliens who’d come here through Lazarus Doors took the names of angels from the Bible and from the Koran. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The whole complex was somehow shocking, alien to the sloping hills and fields. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spiritual worry was alien to him; it was financial worry that rocked his being. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Guides in traditional costume explain that the reliefs on the lintel form an intricate astronomical calendar that may have been brought to earth by alien beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“G-Wiz. He’s this weird blue alien thing for the Washington Wizards. He looks like Cookie Monster on drugs.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The emotional and physical nakedness of my father somehow made me see him in a different light —he seemed a stranger, a total alien. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made it easier to lure Christians and Muslims onto the aliens’ dinner plates, but it also upset a lot of contemporary readers here on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Would you rather be a robot, an alien, or a wolf? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

E.T. - the most famous alien of our time; seeking a very small woman or accomplished professional midget performer. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When these new interests and values are recognized and institutionalized, geek lads may have more status and feel less like aliens in their own schools. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning over, Sefia set the cup down and pulled at the book until it came tumbling into her arms, feeling so familiar and so utterly alien at the same time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But sitting in that garden, for the first time I was an alien, I was a sailor—landless and disconnected. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘Not something weird, like aliens beaming Salim up to their spaceship, or him slipping between dimensions or—’ ‘No, not weird,’ I said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he asks, “What is that? It looks like an alien helmet.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In school, Sophie felt alienated because she could not confide in a classmate or teacher. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My packet of worksheets, my impending academic doom, the hospital, Dr. Katz, even Mom, it’s not that they feel far away; it’s that they feel like a foreign language, an alien planet. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everything felt strange, alien, as if she were on another planet, as if she were on the moon. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine yourself a visitor from some other and quite alien planet, approaching Earth with no preconceptions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people of the world, the ordinary people, were still alien to him, just as he was apart from them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mercer doesn’t have to do anything alien to him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Court said that “the likelihood that any person of Mexican ancestry is an alien is high enough to make Mexican appearance a relevant factor.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She ran on, through a tangled fringe of gossip, never seeing that these names were alien to him, they meant nothing, and that as she prattled unaware he grew colder and more silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Landed here to found New World about twenty years ago or so. But there were aliens here. The Spackle. And they...didn’t want us.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Only at first Matt thought it was some kind of beast, so alien and terrible was its face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any novel or play about the lower class will necessarily be alien to the culture it portrays. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aliens have come for us, and we’re ready to go. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Tlingit had preserved in oral tradition an entirely recognizable and accurate account of their first, almost fully peaceable encounter with an alien culture.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Now it feels like he’s shoving something alien and gross into my mouth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There is something irresistible about the discovery of even a token, perhaps a complex inscription, but, best by far, a key to the understanding of an alien and exotic civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a rock and thought how weird it was that people call ’em aliens. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was not enough for him to have made the Church powerful and to have alienated his allies, for since he coveted the Kingdom of Naples, he divided it with the King of Spain. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The claim that an alien society, if it had a sufficiently advanced technology, would come up with almost exactly the same figure as us for the speed of light is perfectly sound. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If you tell me more about the aliens, I’ll tell you why I was sent here.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Unhappy, alienated, isolated lads are legion in schools, and voiceless in media, education, and politics. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every time a new king was crowned, they added on a new wing to the alien castle, which was why I had to build it so enormous. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take our chances of becoming ‘contaminated’ with a hundred thousand ‘aliens,’” one reporter wrote, “if they produce only one William Frederick Friedman in a generation!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You can prove that 1 + 1 = 42, and from there you can prove that J. Edgar Hoover was a space alien, that William Shakespeare came from Uzbekistan, or even that the sky is polka-dotted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I felt almost as if I were on some alien planet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out there in the trees beyond Frederick’s window hangs an alien light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I asked Haas and Creamer where a race of alien visitors in, say, 3000 B.C. would have landed if they were searching for earth’s most sophisticated society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I'm half Asian, a girl, and I believe in aliens. Pretty much every lifetime before mine would have sucked for me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My fellow prisoners and I looked around at one another like we were on some alien planet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someone left an alien mask on my chair in Ms. Faraci’s class that I discovered when I slipped in right before the final bell. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was like some kind of Star Wars alien creature with invisible tentacles that sucked your thoughts out of your brain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was astounded by so new and alien a feeling. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our Little Fetus looks like your basic cute little alien with a big head and tiny limbs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My forehead had become host to an alien parasite: the biggest pimple I’d ever had in my entire life. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sluggers have fallen in love with Kerouac and Keats and Woolf and Shakespeare, and hope I’ll press the button to preserve our literature for other alien races to explore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But while Charles always felt alienated and alone, James grew up surrounded by loving family and friends. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was quiet for a moment, and then he said, “Do you understand a little better now? What it’s like to face a power so alien? To face an enemy with such unnatural strength?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Next she’d be starting some kind of crusade to prevent the drowning of illegal aliens in the waters of the Rio Grande. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The two of them sat down on the couch while I took the La-Z-Boy, wondering to myself whether Cletus wasn’t just some alien pretending to be a human life. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look alien any longer, but that only made it more dangerous, made me more likely to relax and make a mistake. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess other people—probably millions of them—besides Brian and me have seen that alien movie. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He tossed me a green T-shirt and a pair of shorts so white, they were blinding in the alien glow of the bathroom’s fluorescent lights. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Who is this alien, and what has it done with my grandmother? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I mean, choose carefully, because it's gonna last forever and might be seen or heard by aliens," she reminded us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

"They looked so alone, so alien in the strange land, that I choked up." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, because even though these are my imaginary alien people, I have no idea what they are extracting. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was as if a strange and alien part of each of my friends had been involved in sabotaging the kayak. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the debit side, the labor pool was of a deeply alien culture, worshipping unfamiliar gods, speaking a language few Greeks understood. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Fair enough. And yes, I can totally do aliens, since they seem so important to you.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wished I knew how to make Diego believe me; I wished the aliens had abducted him, too, so we could have watched the stars together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The other day he mentioned us going to some movie about an alien invasion and I almost blacked out thinking of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We imagined the places we would go and the people we would meet, far away from Bartlett, Indiana, population 14,983, where we felt like aliens from some distant planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

This was more than a group of Orgota curious to see “the alien.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She coaxed her father out of his bitter moods, upheld her timorous and anxious mother, gently restrained her rebellious sister and had reached to draw an uncertain alien into the circle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It appears that Gui is trying to sell his chain-saw sculptures to alien tourists. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Should he turn and bear the fallen soldier down the cold and alien mountain to this valley home? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could get very bad—people crushing my feet, shoving me into the walls, discovering the alien in their midst, screaming, freaking out. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the planets sound ominous, like something you’d find in a science fiction movie set in some alien world—“alien world” as in world with aliens, not non-Earth world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He died defeated and alone, a broken man in an alien land. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We are the ones who earn their state grants; we are the ones who make this place a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon School— and we are the ones who are being alienated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An alien with a big bald spot, just like an old man. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To converse in a normal tone of voice meant that an athlete was not thinking seriously about the coming game; it exposed a frivolous nature alien to victory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This lodestone of longing, this certainty, drew him to lead his companions ever westward through wild and unknown country, as unerringly as a carrier pigeon released from an alien loft. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to feel, like an animal in a jungle, that the whole world was alien and hostile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I focus on the stars, and I send love to the aliens flying millions of miles from me in outer space. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

When the Science Patrol encountered a threat they couldn’t handle on their own, Hayata would use an alien device called a Beta Capsule to transform into an alien superbeing known as Ultraman. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She often wore baggy secondhand clothes and a big hat that made her feel safe in this strange, alien environment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As it settled on my shoulders, the jacket felt big, warm, comforting, alien. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Byrd and Mr. Miller seemed completely alien to each other. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Nali drove through Gallup to the main public library, where Nathan checked out a science-fiction trilogy about kids who were drafted by the government to fight an interstellar war against aliens. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We push messages under each other’s doors, written in the cryptic language of the aliens, which is filled with x’s and Z’s and must be decoded. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up, half expecting to see some kind of exotic animal, the noise had been so strange and alien. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We were all just kind of staring at her like she was an alien. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her jeans left a mound of pulpy flesh above her waist that disfigured her T-shirts, as though something alien were growing underneath. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear more about the aliens.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if an alien hand had reached right inside where no hand had a right to be, and wrenched at something deep and precious. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Or you could cease being human altogether, and become an elf, ogre, alien, or any other creature from literature, movies, or mythology. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Downtown San Francisco became alien and cold, and the streets I had loved in a personal familiarity were unknown lanes that twisted with malicious intent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit clambered down the ladder and stood for the second time on the alien shore that was to be her home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is the exhaust of an alien starship on its long voyage home. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it and flipped through the pages, pondering the alien script. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four girls from the back table dashed to the front of the room and presented their app game about an alien landing on Earth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In recent years there have been attempts to make the language of the alien public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe there’s some alien creator and somewhere for dead people to hang out, but I don’t credit all that as God and heaven.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of destroying London and its suburbs, as the Martians did in the novel, Koch’s aliens would create mayhem in the New York City area. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I should have brushed the stupid alien mask to the floor. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the aliens looked exactly like angels—so beautiful, and completely naked with gleaming silvery-white wings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Don’t look at us like we’re an alien or an android or an animal or something. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew off the heads of several hostile aliens. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The perspective gained in the classroom or the library does indeed permit an academic to draw nearer to and understand better the culture of the alien poor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a senior when I was a freshman, and he considered telling everyone I’d been abducted by aliens and turning me into a social pariah his greatest achievement. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I am without a home, forever alienated. Though I am not a nun like you, I also died to the world in coming here.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The barks faded and a chorus of night insects rose up in their place, droning and alien. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It’s about three kids who build a spaceship in their backyard and then fly off to meet aliens. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and tried to reimagine this spacious room with the alien furniture, but he couldn’t. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She spun slowly, taking in the curious twinning of familiarity and the strange that was stranger in its way than the wholly alien had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I have nothing against a well-defined mutant or full-scale alien invasion—that's good technology. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wheel felt like an alien thing in my hands as I followed the white line of the highway. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These others, the strange pale creatures that lived in their alien unlife, weren’t considered folks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One must know him to know him alien. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It worked for a while but then an alien torpedoed me through my own duct. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In an alien northern climate he was a long way from home, but he was beautiful in morning sunlight, and so were the four dolphins that supported the wavy-edged shell on which he sat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The camera glides over the cities of my past, capturing their energetic skylines just before they're destroyed by the terrorist's bomb or advancing alien warship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

These alterations don’t make him appear more normal, however, but more anomalous, like a creature from an alien planet disguised in human clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her room felt alien, the warm wood tones, the tan furniture, the wall-to-wall burgundy carpeting that cushioned her feet, the reams of space that made Kainene call their rooms flats. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My paper might as well have been covered in the etchings of an alien language, written left-handed while standing on my head. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten minutes, ministers followed the protest of alien nerves in fortresses across the Bonecruel Mountains and the Plateau of Drume. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than itself—clothes upon the body of his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Better yet, what do you think is the explanation? That we live on an alien planet?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At first Bell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, thought they might have made contact with an alien civilization in the galaxy! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been imprisoned at Fort Lincoln, in an all-male camp for enemy aliens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he often speaks, frank yet cautious, ironic, as if always aware that I see and judge as an alien: a singular awareness in one of so isolate a race and so high a rank. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the relative darkness, the whole thing looked like some alien vessel rising from the abyss of the ocean. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No, the first thing I thought wasn’t that an alien was beaming down warriors to take me out—okay, fine, it was. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The princely clothes he wore were strange to him, the stones he stood on were unfamiliar, the very air he breathed was alien; he was not himself, not the self he had been. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Aliens who etch little hearts into stone in the middle of the California desert. Of course, Occam’s razor. Go with the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions needed. Vandalizing aliens it is.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Yet the two were in some way akin and not alien: they could reach one another’s minds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I instinctively reached for my phone, but the aliens had stripped me of everything but my festive turkey boxers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Was his body so alien that what to us is mere paralysis was death to him? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A planet made of sparkles and glass and beats that make the aliens pump their fists and wave their arms around like snakes. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Believing Diego liked me and wanted to be with me seemed more implausible than being abducted by aliens who wanted me to decide whether to save the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some of the aliens became epileptics after they’d removed their wings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The aliens didn’t take me because I’m sick and they only wanted healthy people. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time it stopped, the metal arms unfolded and turned this way and that, like a roving robot on an alien planet looking for signs of life. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One on each arm, dressed in black, wearing alien masks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

With his great staring eyes he’d the look of an alien. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once—God knows how long ago—I had worried that I was keeping too much distance between myself and this alien time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even Shayleen, who has been looking at her peeler like it fell off some alien ship. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

‘Yes. But he did not think of himself as a white man. He said, “I consider nothing human as alien to myself.” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And it could have been an alien spaceship. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No, I don’t know where the aliens put my real grandma or if we’ll ever get her back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had been left in an alien land. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And though he had no staff, and stood on alien ground and evil ground, the domain of a dark power, yet his will prevailed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the city room—or really the storage room now—we finished tearing down what was left of Rose’s piece of Harlem and my alien world. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I’ve hid anything having to do with me from Father, never shared my ideals with him, deliberately alienated myself from him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“These days, people see space aliens. Back then they saw gods. Maybe the space aliens come from the right side of the brain.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The ships that escaped his deadly grasp banked around and sprayed him with laser bolts and machine-gun fire, but both deflected harmlessly off his armored alien skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I believe you,” said the stranger, the alien alone with me, and so strong had my access of self-alienation been that I looked up at him bewildered. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there were no NPC villains, monsters, or aliens for me to fight, so there was no treasure or magic items for me to plunder. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It's so alien to my eyes, I think I must have walked into the wrong place, into some kind of Easter parade. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pop looks at Ray like he’s an alien. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The news that an alien’s dyspeptic pains were persisting did not, however, evoke any sympathetic words, and again I retreated into Trinity Street with a prescription for more white stuff. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Feels kinda nice, but also kinda alien and real embarrassing ’cause some of the neighbors are watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Fireplaces were throttled with vines that had descended from the roof and begun to spread across the floors like alien tentacles. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The aliens probably didn’t care one way or another. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All those Hebrew words and sounds seemed so alien, and I had so much history and tradition to catch up on. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boy, Ronan, eyes me the way you would an alien stepping out of its spaceship and asking for pie. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the crowd looked like they had just seen an alien spaceship land. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

An alien screech tore out of his mouth at the pain and he dropped the hammer, beat his fists against the hand and arm that had taken hold of him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Whichever the case, they were not a totally alien species, connected as they were even to royalty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glad-handing, varsity chumminess was totally alien and therefore suspect; then, too, he studied the classics, which are certainly harmless enough but which still provoke the raised eyebrow in some circles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each time we did, white people stared at us as if we were aliens from outer space. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

However hard I try, I will always feel alien and strange. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They only cared about finding illegal aliens trying to come into America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’re the eyes of something that isn’t known but exists anyway; like the green eye of the radio; like the eyes of aliens from a distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest letdown about being abducted by aliens is the abundance of gravity on the spaceship. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Like he got bumped on the head and forgot who he was. Or he was kidnapped by aliens.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three aliens wrestled me to the floor. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Kay and the liberated Dog Boy slept twitching beside him, looking alien and incomprehensible as people do when they are asleep, and Cavall, lying at his good shoulder, occasionally licked his hot cheeks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mouse feeder tells us that if you put a strange mouse into one of their cages, one with the wrong, alien scent, they will bite it to death. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Viking lander extends human capabilities to other and alien landscapes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mama knew they were taking all the alien men first to an interrogation center right there on the island. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looked at me, waiting for me to give an opinion, but I felt alienated from myself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The whole scene was so familiar yet so completely alien that it gave Annabeth vertigo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at us like we were an alien species. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She feels like the alien landing her UFO in the crops. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had, like David Copperfield, been so long on his own that the ways of his peers were alien. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the case of the car salesmen, their decision to quote an outrageously high price to women and blacks alienated people who might otherwise have bought a car. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

How do we change—within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

More and more he was becoming alienated from the Worldwide Church of God. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Look: The incomers—the real aliens, not me—in my father’s book had the ability to produce vibrational waves that targeted a specific region inside the brains of their human victims. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I am up on my tiptoes, trying to appear a mildly short boy and not a medically tiny alien child. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Many were so culturally alienated that they never thought to apply; they couldn’t even imagine themselves going to college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this some end-of-the-world thing? You want to find your father and reconcile before your alien friends nuke the planet?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you think aliens are a lot more advanced than humans, or do you think they’d look at us and think we were the Japan of the universe?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Marcus and Adrian glued my locker shut and wrote Space Boy gargles alien balls on the door in permanent marker, and I couldn’t walk the halls without being stalked by whispers and cruel laughter. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was alienated by his friends and he shrugged it off; his coach kept harassing him about me and he ignored it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s cute, yeah. Shorter than I usually go for though. Like five seven, maybe five six without the boots. Photoshop-blue eyes, like an alien.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For part of a second the sound was so alien he could not place it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aliens have a sick sense of humor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Those kids are like alien freaks, Piper. They’re so not like us. Do you know what kids at Chumley Prep do on their winter break?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The more vigilant Allen was, the more resentful and alienated Nicholas became, and the worse things got. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t travel with an alien organism inhabiting my face. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d pushed that button when I’d had the chance, I wouldn’t have needed to stand outside in the cold night, begging the aliens to save me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His father seemed more alien every time he came here. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After reading to Diego from my journal, I felt less like a freak discussing the aliens with him, though they still weren’t my favorite conversation topic. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I want his display of chain-saw art and his sign for the aliens overhead to all look as stupid and pathetic as they possibly can. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“In the other,” added Nala, “we turn the tables on alien invaders.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Alexander encouraged respect for alien cultures and the open-minded pursuit of knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never “anywheres”! “The aliens could be almost anywhere, ” said Ripley. appall. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kind of reminded Park of the way artists draw Jean Grey sometimes when she's using her telepathy, with her eyes all blacked out and alien. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It echoed throughout the dark room, and the sound triggered memories of an old movie— something about astronauts boarding an abandoned alien vessel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Good night, Ai,” said the alien, and the other alien said, “Good night, Harth.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I am feeling alienated from the rest of the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Other events of the four-day festivities included an alien invader costume contest, a Martian panic bike race, and an alien attack reenactment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In America, in contrast, the great unwashed masses were increasingly foreign—and their genes, like their accents, were identifiably alien. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Plus, what makes you think aliens don't already know about us? Shoot, I know a few aliens in this school," Macy added. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Kym’s alien features took on an expression that almost resembled sympathy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They seem to be a matter of perspective: the more remote or alien the period, the more clear-cut the period style—and the more limited our knowledge and understanding. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we make them aliens instead of zombies? Zombies are so overdone.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But staring at me from inside of Jesse’s pictures was an alien face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s been hard to watch as carefully built, compassionate policies have been rolled back, as we’ve alienated some of our closest allies and left vulnerable members of our society exposed and dehumanized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We could be in the midst of an alien invasion and Tim would be like, “Cool.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skins and not true men at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our neighbourhood looked odd at first, as if a giant alien presence had been beamed to another planet, leaving behind naked sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like talking to aliens pretending to be human. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at him, beseeching the aliens or Clark Gable or whoever’s in charge of soul abductions to bring back my brother. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Eat? Who wants to eat this? He looks like a mini alien.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Burr had alienated Jefferson and the triumphant Republican party by his disloyalty as a vice president and had lost by a landslide in his bid to become a Federalist governor of New York. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He seemed so alien to everything that he did not even notice Remedios the Beauty as she passed by naked on her way to her bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was like they were constantly speaking two different languages, each trying to convince the other in an alien lexicon. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t get that I feel like a three-headed alien in my own home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each true-or-false question taught the user—and the alien—basic Earth science facts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was terrified and probably thought I was some alien monster. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he now took the usual kind of travellers across, businessmen, soldiers and women, they no longer seemed alien to him as they once had. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ser Kevan made his way across the inner ward, the castle seemed an alien place, where every keep and tower had grown icy teeth, and all familiar paths had vanished beneath a white blanket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back in 1996, the “Third Rock From the Sun” episode “My Mother the Alien” also had a spitting baby, one that was being fed by Tommy and Harry, the space alien brothers. Television: ?New Girls,? ?2 Broke Girls,? ?Last Man Standing?: New Season for Old Jokes 2011-11-23T14:30:42Z

He has also suggested he felt a bit alien as a child, and his appeal on screen rests largely on this quirky, outsider quality. Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood 2010-07-12T20:30:00Z

Watching the returns of the 2020 election with the colleagues she by then felt to be freakish aliens suggests “a ‘Star Wars’ cantina scene as produced by One America News network.” Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

A bumbling alien from the planet Naboo who George Lucas reportedly intended to provide comic relief and keep young children happy, he was voted the most annoying film character of all time in 2006 poll. Star Wars producer confirms Jar Jar Binks will not appear in The Force Awakens 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Assuming you haven’t inadvertently alienated his new wife, or she doesn’t feel threatened by your former intimacy with her husband, perhaps you and your friend can renew the relationship as couples. My Ex and I Are Friends. Why Won’t His Wife Accept That? 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rosen went on to suggest that tweaking the skin one is in has become a leisure pursuit no more alien or off-putting than, say, a Botox party. Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Robyn is framed within a spectacle of strobes and lights that would convince many an unsuspecting passerby that aliens had landed. Robyn - review 2010-10-20T21:01:00Z

That of course led to aliens and the idea of two geeky Brits who find an alien. Road trip to Area 51 uncovers alien named "Paul" 2011-03-15T19:49:36Z

The idea for the soundtrack to the scene in Independence Day when the alien ship first appears through the clouds above New York came to him in his sleep. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

Cue a hazing scene that straddles the uncomfortable line between slapstick and violence, down to the kind of probing usually encountered in tales of alien abduction. Review: Rich, Crude and Craving Acceptance in 17th-Century France 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

But Scintilla’s politics alienated some of her online buddies. ‘Drop dead, media!’ Trump fans yelled — then bought the local papers 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s an Irish space-alien sex comedy, except that in this case the alien, played by Simon Delaney, is actually a pudgy escaped convict wearing a red vinyl bodysuit and a bicycle racing helmet. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z

So many comic book stories are about stopping a meteor or alien invasions. How Shannon Hale draws strength from Wonder Woman, the star of her new book, even amid boos 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

Like “The Gifted School,” Tilney’s book eschews the trope of the alienated narrator. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Sadie, Mr. Jacobs’s “rough and explosive sound” was “alien to the refined and elegant age to which the music belongs.” Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

According to a poll published by the Huffington Post earlier this year, about half of Americans believe in some kind of alien life, and a quarter think visitors have come to Earth. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

He is forced to claim his spot among this group of misfits — and, even more unnerving, to acknowledge the possibility of alien life. 12 TV series to watch this fall 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Austin Manko returned to Russia with my grandmother, who, according to the laws at the time, had to forfeit her American citizenship because she had married an “alien.” What Happens to the Deported 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

He made his aliens blue, he explained, as a way of exploring the issues around race and prejudice without claiming first-hand experience. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z

In July 1985, Hawke starred in “Explorers” as a bright-eyed teenager named Ben who travels into space and meets a family of aliens, an encounter he believes will change his life. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

I'm sure I speak for the rest of my sofa-dwelling brethren when I extend a hand – or should that be tentacle – of friendship and welcome our new alien overlords. Six to watch: TV aliens 2011-03-24T11:49:35Z

The trailers promise a found-footage retake on E.T., with kids finding a cute alien that looks like Bubo from Clash of the Titans. What Happened to the Big Fourth of July Blockbuster? 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

It follows a group of friends reuniting after 20 years on an epic pub crawl, which results in them battling an alien invasion. The World's End trailer: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's new sci-fi comedy - video 2013-05-08T16:39:18Z

No longer could we assume that alien life would occur only on planets like our own, and must bear at least some resemblance to ourselves. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z

But the Bagger figured she ought to jump in, at least for a bit, this whole world of Hollywood hype being alien terrain. Vanessa Redgrave, 'Magic Mike' Fan, and Other Awards Season Quirks 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The presence of alien life and homegrown superheroes matter far less the grimy threat of Hells Kitchen. Bare-knuckle, old-school tack in 'Daredevil' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

"It's taken L.A. a long time to let me do a show like 'Leverage,' " he says, "with its comedy and relationships, instead of shows that only have aliens and green screens." 'Sci Fi' pops program at Benaroya stars Jonathan Frakes 2011-10-06T21:06:06Z

Beyond the special-effects wizardry, the scene is a reminder that the word “alien” shares a root with the Latin “alius,” meaning “other.” Aliens as immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ became the latest political sci-fi film 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Apparently, he's also "got a special UV lamp to check for any traces left by aliens". Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects 2013-06-18T06:00:11Z

For others, the notion of being in touch with their own needs and desires is totally alien, says Andrew. ‘Learning to relax can be life-changing’: how to find your comfort zone 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Once the Vichy regime took over, she herself was interned as an “enemy alien,” but managed to emigrate and settle in New York in 1941. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

It appeals to kids because of its alien appearance. Perspective | You’ve seen these uncommon fruits. Here’s what to do with them. 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

All you have to know about Paul is that the role of the alien is voiced by Seth Rogen in his jovial-stoner mode. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z

Whittaker triggered thousands of online debates when she got the role of The Doctor - a shape-shifting alien Time Lord played by men since the show first appeared on British television screens in 1963. Dr Who's Whittaker: I've proved I can fly the Tardis, what next? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

But then to Harrison, all life is alien: the inhabitants of a motorway service station near Penrith or an inner-city Sheffield cafe are as compellingly bizarre as anywhere in The Halo or Radio Bay. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

The two at the gallery, “Blue Joany” and “Brown Sugar,” resemble scrambled rugs, molecular mishaps and comfy nests for 2-D aliens. Renegade abstractions of Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson make for a stellar art show 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Puccini alienated a series of librettists as he kept demanding changes in the text trying to get it right. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Unveiling the truth about aliens is really just the start. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

For a band that had briefly alienated its lifelong crowd, it felt like a welcome-back moment.  X returns to 'Los Angeles' at the Roxy 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Hahn Rowe’s spooky, electronic score, though more boilerplate than his typically distinctive compositions, sets a spooky, alienated mood. Dance Review: Meg Stuart?s ?Blessed,? at New York Live Arts - Review 2012-01-14T00:28:29Z

Described as “a spectacularly evolved, world-conquering organism,” and looking like jellyfish or octopi with limbs resembling Rastafarian locks, these alien beings take on the properties of the creatures they have encountered and assimilated. REVIEW: Edge of Tomorrow: Being Tom Cruise, Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Twentieth Century Fox Since then, scarier visitors have replaced A.I.’s benign aliens. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Seconds before my interview with Tom DeLonge is due to begin, I’m told: “Don’t mention aliens.” 'People need to open their minds!' – Tom DeLonge on his new career as a UFO expert 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

I just wanted to make a character who was very alien but so joyful and earnest and fascinated by the world that you would relate to her anyway. Kate McKinnon on ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘S.N.L.’ and Hillary Clinton 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

He also played an alien on “The Outer Limits.” Joe E. Tata, Peach Pit Owner in ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Dies at 85 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

He’s a profile in American reinvention — it’s here a kind of alien found a band, an audience and a home. Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

While it might seem easy to pity the alienated Hogan, his ornery truculence and the me-against-the-world attitude that flares when he drinks makes us see how hard he might be to live with. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

From that moment on, the aliens' relatively sheltered existence begins to unravel. Your next box set: Roswell 2012-06-07T17:00:01Z

When the family returned to the United States, he said, he felt alienated as an outsider. William Powell, ‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Writer, Dies at 67 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

"I am not an alien!" my self rejoiced. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

By contrast, “This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes,” written, illustrated and published by Canadians, seems almost alien in its upbeat perspective. Black and White and Living Color 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

BrainDead follows a Hill staffer who realizes that aliens have taken over the brains of a growing number of congressmen. These Are TIME’s Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2016 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

At times, the game relies too heavily on the nostalgic glow of the TV show, with visits from Al Gore, Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, underpants gnomes, Jesus and extremely invasive aliens. Video Game Review: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Make a ‘South Park’ Game 2014-03-04T22:47:52Z

As an alien national he was excluded from the spectrum of privileges and protections attached to French citizenship. Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

What if we assume benevolent intent on the part of the visiting aliens but also postulate that they do not grasp the concepts of fiction and performance and humor? Critic?s Notebook: Science Channel Ponders ?Alien Encounters? 2012-03-19T22:13:00Z

While a movie like "They Live" was about subtle imperialism and human beings were the evil overlords in "District 9" and "Starship Troopers," "Captive State" just makes the alien invaders into generic dystopian, two-dimensional baddies. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“There’s no real interaction with the aliens,” he says. Suburban alienation meets aliens in Margaret Wappler's 'Neon Green' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Star Wars gave us space warriors with furry dog-faced alien sidekicks, while Doctor Who centred on a jelly-baby-munching time traveller with a penchant for scarves the length of The Great Wall of China. When good TV goes bad: how Battlestar Galactica became a holy mess 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Alongside familiar and subtly tweaked classics are recipes that might appeal to those who first encountered Asian food as the alien half of some unholy fusion. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

This rare "sudden artistic output" syndrome turns a semi-criminal drug user into a compulsive creator at large "in an alien landscape". In an Alien Landscape – review 2013-02-04T18:37:11Z

If you really want to know what it's like trying to function in a completely alien culture, this is the book for you. Gillian Cross's top 10 books about being different 2013-04-25T09:34:00Z

Not long after this glamorous alien emerged came a more working-class punk subculture for which rebellion was a raison d’être. What the Mullet Means Now 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

But research clearly establishes that adversity is the rule, even if those experiencing it feel alienated and “not normal.” What Does It Take to Overcome Adversity? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The new look turned out to be an alien being that tried to possess the hero. Spider-Man Turns 60 Years Old This Month. He’s as Boyish as Ever. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

A glamorous survivor of four years as a British enemy alien in France during World War II, married to a French viscount, astonishingly and adulterously dating the British movie star Robert Donat. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z

The debut trailer, which has just hit the web, hints that alien invasion is the genre being riffed on this time around. The World's End trailer: last orders for mankind? 2013-05-08T14:59:00Z

But the concept was so alien that he couldn’t get his head around it. Why don’t Kenyans run ultramarathons? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

The comic strokes undercut the tension that the film expertly builds, but they aren’t isolated — an element that sets “Bridge of Spies” apart from the dour, alienated tone of classic Cold War movies. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

It's hard work being this alienated and he deserves some love interest. Luther; The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II – TV review 2013-07-03T05:00:05Z

In a 1981 interview, he said that “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” about an alien who lands in Kentucky and can’t adjust to life on this planet, was “disguised autobiography.” Walter Tevis Was a Novelist. You Might Know His Books (Much) Better as Movies. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Is she the subject of a government conspiracy, the victim of a blackmarket opioid gone wrong or simply the uterine host for a full-blown alien takeover? Antibirth star Natasha Lyonne: ‘Isn’t everyone entitled to an existential breakdown?’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Four decades after his star turn as an alcoholic alien in the film “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” David Bowie is now co-writing a new stage work based on the same story. Musical? Play? All That's Sure Is David Bowie Is Involved 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Previous The Force Awakens publicity has revealed that the alien’s eyes hold a special power, likely to be linked to the Force, which requires them to be covered in goggles at all times. Lupita Nyong'o's Maz Kanata revealed in new Star Wars: The Force Awakens video 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The official is Charity Dean, who sounds a little like the half-crazed scientist in a science fiction movie, suddenly realizing that the aliens are about to land. Michael Lewis Chronicles the Story of Covid’s Cassandras 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

He has alienated Muslims with an inept speech in the Bavarian city of Regensburg. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

The book avoids the fantasy game of proposing any specific vision of what aliens might look like — thus no Wookiees, E.T.s or little green Martians — and focuses on how they might behave. When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ender is isolated from his comrades and manipulated into commanding war against a hostile alien race by Colonel Graff, played by Harrison Ford. 'Ender's Game' explores complexity of youth, isolation and warfare 2013-10-30T18:03:14Z

A scientific genius and determined survivor in the wake of an alien invasion, the only disappointment is that she isn't a playable character. Five games that break the mould 2013-04-13T23:05:17Z

He was rarely forced to deal with foes of a different race, language, or religion, nor was he ever, at least in classical times, stranded in alien jungle or desert landscapes. A Misguided Impulse to Update the Greek Classics 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

His alien falsetto weaves though panicked synth echoes in “A Brain in a Bottle” and the gloomy swells of “Truth Ray” with signature grace. Thom Yorke's 'Tomorrow's Modern Boxes' holds few surprises 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The Bible contains a number of directives about embracing the outside, the alien. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

The only dissonant note is from the synthetic, heavy-panting score, which seems anxious that an alien might — just might! — decide to cling to the heat shield. ‘The Real Right Stuff’ Review: A Movie Still Waiting for Liftoff 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

According to these shows, we've become soft, feminized and alienated from the physical world. High Manxiety 2011-05-26T07:10:00Z

It was a novelty, admits the 54-year-old actor and director: "I don't do dressing and nails and manicures, so it's completely alien to me." Kathryn Hunter to play Cleopatra at RSC | Interview 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

That should not stop you from watching this sci-fi action film, which is basically “Groundhog Day” crossed with an alien invasion war movie. What You Should Watch Each Day This Week: ‘The Detour’ and ‘Lady Dynamite’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

The photo is titled “Truth is beauty,” with an irony alien to Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” the poem from which that phrase is adapted. In the galleries: A meeting of lines in art and architecture

Ludlow further deduces that aliens have intercepted the space capsule that was sent into deep space bearing copies of videogame combat and have interpreted them as a declaration of war by the planet Earth. Review: 'Pixels' Is Fun — for a Bit 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the aliens and their human targets that ends with a twist straight out of “The X Files.” ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z

She will claim: "We're seeing an alien, warped view of sex normalised into our culture, engrained by the invisible hand of the market." Diane Abbott to launch attack on hypersexualised culture 2013-01-22T00:57:30Z

One would make it a state crime for aliens not to carry documents. Justices seem OK with immigration checks 2012-04-25T16:13:00Z

And most importantly, because it's a SyFy film, the finale must involve everyone visiting an alien mothership that looks suspiciously like three bits of corrugated iron in an abandoned warehouse. Waterworld the remake! SyFy wade in for possible new film 2012-11-30T11:48:16Z

In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord 2012-01-29T07:13:50Z

Should they be called “undocumented workers,” “illegal aliens,” “migrants” or something else? ‘Racist’ tweets? News media grapple with how to label Trump’s latest attacks 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Gibson told reporters recently, about the period immediately following 2002's "Signs," a tale of aliens invading Earth. 2010-01-27T18:46:00Z

That has been his central preoccupation virtually since he returned from military service in Vietnam in 1968, “very mixed up, very paranoid and very alienated,” as he has put it. Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Flying aircraft carriers, Norse gods, an alien Andy Warhol, the Merman – it's not real! 2012: the year of the dumb blockbuster 2012-12-29T00:07:33Z

After a steady diet of Hollywood deaths, real ones–the labored breathing, the body becoming a slack husk–seem uncanny, alien. Dead Tree Alert: How TV Does, and Doesn’t, Deal With Death 2013-10-24T14:59:19Z

Sony ’s “Venom,” an R-rated comic adaptation about a journalist who becomes the host of a sharp-toothed alien, was also well-received among the crowd, some of whom yelled, “We are Venom!” At Comic-Con, ‘Aquaman’ and Others Score With Super Fans 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Occasionally a note of wistfulness or melancholy slips into his monologues, but real regret and deep introspection are alien to his character. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

If we can believe in an alien queen rampaging across Nevada, then surely we can believe in a gay man sharing a small, but meaningful kiss with his partner. Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

But the show is careful not to simply celebrate the American spirit while blasting alien intruders. Television Review: It?s Might Versus Right Versus Space Monster 2011-06-16T22:15:15Z

It's "grounded in people. It's not like we're going to a different world or saying aliens exist or zombies exist," Hurd said, adding that it fits with USA's series "Colony" and "Mr. Robot." Dreams, diversity hallmarks of USA's new 'Falling Water' 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

But Brown, despite the popularity of his anthem “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud,” alienated black audiences because of his support of Richard M. Nixon. ‘Get On Up’ Stars Chadwick Boseman as James Brown 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Still, he believes that making a movie is not entirely alien to doing stand-up or a half-hour TV show or a book. Jon Stewart, now a feature film director with ‘Rosewater,’ contemplates what’s next

What I got instead was a demented funhouse fantasia of fear, real fear, the kind of immediate visually – sourced fear completely alien to a child theretofore frightened only by the figments of his own imagination. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The aliens themselves look metallic and ungainly, as if about to transform into a Nissan Micra, with plenty of firepower. Battle: Los Angeles ? review 2011-03-10T22:00:00Z

“It’s so close, but it’s so alien, so other.” The Meaning of the Moon, From the Incas to the Space Race 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Sure, that mysterious Kubrickian metal slab in the red canyons of Utah was likely an artwork or a hoax, not alien. The Year Space Got Sexy All Over Again 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

When the alien, all thrashing tentacles, big fangs and scuttling giant-insect legs, first burst forth amid a spray of glistening viscera, a new threshold of horror was crossed. 'The Thing': a warmed-over creature feature 2011-10-13T13:55:23Z

He's just so bloody beautiful and extraordinary, every one of him – from fedora-wearing hippy through various aliens, insects, ghosts, etc to the tanned blond yuppie pop star of the Serious Moonlight tour. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z

The warmth of familiarity can make a launch a much less risky proposition than something totally alien, though the recent Baywatch movie flop showed this strategy is not without limits. Can the onslaught of TV reboots and revivals survive in 2017? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The leader of the alien conspiracy … actually, you don't need to know any more. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-10-22T23:06:00Z

They set off to the planet Notax, whose fiscally irresponsible aliens live in chaos. IRS apologises for $60,000 Star Trek parody – but stands by Gilligan's Island 2013-03-25T22:07:15Z

The aliens employ hulking, not quite sentient tin cans that look like larger and more lethal cousins of the Minions. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Also, the big-budget new version of “Predator” in June: “That one’s about aliens and stuff.” For ‘Wonder’ movie, Jacob Tremblay connected with real-life Auggies 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

But Out of the Furnace must rev itself up to violent retribution, to lasso back the viewers it has alienated or sedated in its first hour. Out of the Furnace…and Into the Indie-Film Clichés 2013-12-07T00:29:27Z

Science fiction, more than other genres, has long included characters and stories that deviate from a strict gender binary, even if some of those roles were aliens or otherworldly creatures. 2021 was an extraordinary year of making the nonbinary ordinary 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

The first is that women of colour are being cast as aliens by an unthinking industry that still equates “not white” with “exotic”. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill as men who start a neighborhood watch group and battle aliens. "Dark Knight Rises" tops box office, sales drop 60 percent 2012-07-29T16:40:48Z

“Please dance like a U.F.O., like a kind of alien,” he urged, and the audience did its best. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z

The answer, in any case, can only be the Giger alien itself, a contribution to the pantheon of modern design up there with the Coca-Cola logo and the Nike swoosh. Review: In ‘Alien: Covenant,’ Everybody’s Favorite Predator Returns 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

In the nineteen-nineties, Araki made his name with films such as “The Doom Generation,” a tale of a ménage à trois among aimless sleazoids, and “Nowhere,” which linked teen alienation with alien abduction. The Ennobling Smut of Gregg Araki’s “Now Apocalypse” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

His job is to repair drones that patrol the facilities that extract resources for the surviving populace and that are under attack from the aliens, or Scavs, as in scavengers. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z

Recalling those conversations, Hoffman said: “Don’t we want an alien in their world? The thing that we’re not expecting, that doesn’t make sense?” Why Are Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short Working Together? It’s a Mystery. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

But she does not take seriously what some readers will find most urgent about an Area 51 study: rumors that alien spacecraft are reverse-engineered there, too. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z

In each show, vampires are small in number; they are endangered and alienated outcasts. On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before he started the whole alien spaceship thing last year, the chairman of Harvard University's astronomy department was known for public lectures on modesty. Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Both of those issues alienated him from some former supporters. This powerful image perfectly captures how divided America was when MLK died 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Rocky, when you meet him, is a beautifully constructed alien. Review | Andy Weir’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a bestseller. It also has some problems. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

This garners national attention, and as Ellie decodes the aliens’ message, she must protect her work from those trying to steal or discount it. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Contact’ and the State of the Union 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

At the start of The Intouchables, each man seems strange, alien, ludicrous to the other; the two must collide before they connect. The Intouchables: France's Biggest Hit Dares You to Resist Its Charms 2012-05-24T14:23:28Z

Aluna Francis and George Reid also discuss feelings about pop stardom and how they would describe their music to an alien just landed on Earth. Music tip for 2013: AlunaGeorge interview - video 2013-01-02T10:00:00Z

Whilst he has some reservations both about the villagers' extraordinary phlegm and the flatness of the characterisation, Savage is still convinced by the "insidious nature of the alien invasion" which remains "startling and strange". Reader reviews roundup 2012-06-29T14:44:12Z

But how will a new generation of teens, haunted by evil dolls, evil clowns and evil aliens react to a film about … evil accidents? Final Destination at 20: the bleakest teen horror film ever made 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

The voices recount lights in the sky, the alien ships above. Susan Hiller: Voices from the sky 2011-01-31T21:30:01Z

Indeed, Mr. Imbrogno, 59, is enthusiastic about all matters of high strangeness: genies, aliens, sea serpents and strange swamp creatures. A Hike Into the Mystic, or Just a Walk in the Woods? 2010-10-14T21:39:00Z

And the usually dominating fact of the Moor of Venice being a foreigner, a dark-skinned alien in a white European society, has been qualified by the use of colorblind casting throughout. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

These archetypes are as timeless and primal as that scene in “Alien” when the alien bursts out of Kane’s chest in counterpoint to the real-life nation obsessing about abortion and women’s lib. Who Wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

“I am simply an extraterrestrial who has taken her form,” she tells the stunned Vanessa — the alien is a “species observation officer” and has been sent to study earthlings. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

The last immigration "amnesty", by which undocumented aliens were allowed a process to citizenship, was enacted by a Republican administration. Chris Weitz: once upon a time in East LA 2011-07-28T20:55:01Z

And he’s got a lot to say about Mars and the alien cities he thinks are buried under its ice. Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

While the filmmakers manage some entertaining fight sequences, they offer a standard-issue gang of heroes backed by a vague, unoriginal mythology about human-looking aliens finding refuge on Earth after their planet is destroyed. Capsule reviews: 'I Am Number Four,' 'Unknown' 2011-02-17T19:55:16Z

What it became was a different kind of mystery entirely: a musical that got prominent pans, alienated much of its audience and lost most of its investment — yet survived. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

On the other side, the Taiping rebels, fueled by their messianic religious ideology that contained a whiff of Christianity, who wanted to reclaim China from the small alien Manchu elite. Books of The Times: ?Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom,? by Stephen R. Platt 2012-02-06T22:05:43Z

Bowie plays Thomas Newton, an alien who comes to us not in peace, nor to make war, but in search of water. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

It will focus on Dalí after World War II — an unusually long late phase when his publicity stunts made him a celebrity but also alienated the art world. Week Ahead: Aug. 1-7 2010-07-29T14:33:00Z

Chavez's socialist reforms were popular among the poor but alienated the middle- and upper-classes and many now believe the economy will continue to get worse. Economic crisis, political strife drive Venezuela brain-drain 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The sight of a possession, for those who’d never witnessed one, was alien, impressive. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Before his 20th birthday, 6 million Jews — among them his aunt and uncle — had perished in the Holocaust, an event that would leave generations of German Jews alienated from their homeland. Fritz Stern, refugee and leading historian of Germany, dies at 90 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

When aliens misinterpret videos of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and use them as models for an invasion of Earth, an old-school joystick jockey is enlisted to fend them off. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a keen eye for lighting and shading, her metamorphosis into heroes and villains — male and female, human and alien — eerily resembles two-dimensional comic book art. She Brings Comic Book Characters to Life 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

At 's most fundamental, Area 52 tilts at the Stooges, the Cramps and the aliens, an ongoing interest of Zinner's. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito – review 2013-04-13T23:05:09Z

At first he doesn't accept her apology but, being the immature oaf that he is, Chris gets back at her by using her as human torpedo to destroy their gooey, disgusting alien target. In the end, "Peacemaker" is the villain-turned-hero worth crossing the TV galaxy for 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

When I started, looking at photography monographs in Cape Town was a totally alien idea. ‘I’m Finished When I Start Looking at the World in a Different Way’ 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

"He's been working with aliens, and I've been working with frogs and pigs." Making movie music for the Muppets 2012-02-10T01:23:07Z

He took a particular interest in the psychology of alienated urban people, and his characters’ malaise often borders on the existential. South American Literature’s Master of Malaise 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

But with rare exceptions they have been the preserve of men: lonely, alienated psycho killers with arsenals of high-powered weapons and feverishly composed manifestos. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

The fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous, and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other...we operate on alien wave­lengths. Elizabeth Taylor releases love letters from Burton 2010-06-01T20:11:00Z

I was feeling really alienated from the rest of society. Lydia Loveless: Defiance on the farm 2011-11-22T17:10:00Z

The car is not an alien presence; it is part of the urban fabric. Last Chance: ?Cars, Culture, and the City? at Museum of the City of New York 2010-07-19T22:03:00Z

Those events — plus the nefarious aliens, with their oil-spill eyes —kept together what might otherwise have been just a series of weird episodes about freaks, psychics and genetic mutants. The truth is still out there: 5 mysteries we hope the “X-Files” reboot will resolve 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The show is set in a dystopian Los Angeles overrun by aliens and warfare. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Castle Rock’ and ‘Colony’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

There was this vanilla-ness to it that was alien to me, to which I didn’t fit in. With ‘Lucy in the Sky,’ Noah Hawley Expands His Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

The pictures appear to show a Tatooine-like marketplace and a new alien creature. Lupita Nyong’o joins Star Wars cast 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

At no point, for example, does Nick Carraway hurtle though a phosphorescent alien jungle, or smash up New York with his fists, or put on a bikini and get eaten by a swarm of piranhas. The Great Gatsby trailer shows Baz Luhrmann putting 3D to good use 2012-05-23T14:20:42Z

If there are no aliens or spaceships to be seen, the strangeness consists of jolts of information and confusion that seem to arrive from out of the blue. | 'Everything Strange and New': Bye-Bye, Happiness; Life Is a Trap 2011-02-25T01:03:32Z

But what it also did was to place him in close proximity to an alien and very British establishment. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z

In Ted Chiang’s 1998 short story, on which the film is based, the sound the aliens make is described as vaguely resembling “a wet dog shaking the water out of its fur.” It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

If you ask anyone on the street to say what an alien looks like, I hope they would say it’s gray, with big eyes and a big head. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z

I hope it is influential on the industry, but there are many other alien invasion movies that are much more entertaining. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Cultivating a party profile would have been alien to her mother. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z

Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” an expedition to Antarctica discovers an alien city under the ice, with predictable results. Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

It required a style of journalism alien to intellectual editor David Astor. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

There, the heroine of the piece was a green-skinned female alien named Gamora, who also had a romantic relationship with the white male hero. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

And Messerschmidt’s sculptures, which once struck audiences as alien and nuts, simply make some human sense in our century, when everyone could use some psychotherapy. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z

It's a fine story, one in keeping with the eccentric Britishness of the show, as it concerns both a global alien threat and a nice village green. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-07-30T07:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine anywhere less domestic than the huge, repetitive blocks of the Bijlmer or more alien to the incoming Surinamese. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

Morena Baccarin, who plays the leader of the alien visitors on ABC's "V," had a fondness for the material before she even read the script. Fresh faces may enliven Emmys 2010-05-26T05:47:00Z

Way back in 1901, it was said that the island territories were inhabited by “alien races” that couldn’t “understand Anglo-Saxon principles” and thus were denied the vote. Watch John Oliver Cast His Ballot for Voting Rights for U.S. Territories 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

South Florida, where nearly all of America’s winter tomatoes are grown, is nearly as alien an environment for farming. Books of The Times: That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity 2011-07-05T21:04:11Z

In “How Late-Night Comedy Fueled the Rise of Trump,” Flanagan argues that “Sneering hosts have alienated conservatives and made liberals smug.” Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Doctor Who” was no longer simply meant to entertain kids with a bunch of scary alien monsters and a chatterbox Time Lord. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

He said in 2003 that “illegal aliens” constituted one-third of the total prison population, a claim he later retracted. Hard-line views made Lou Dobbs a Fox powerhouse. Now he’s shaping Trump’s border policy. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

In it, a humanoid form slithers back and forth, its movements startlingly alien. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

It was a special air force train and the teacher was seeking to wreck it because there was something vital aboard, not unconnected with Roswell-type incidents, UFOs and aliens. Super 8 ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:42Z

She is accompanied by her dishy-but-pompous hunk of a Brit grandson Charlie, played by Australian star Christopher Egan, whose mangled English accent makes him sound as if his epiglottis has been kidnapped by aliens. Film review: Letters to Juliet 2010-06-10T21:46:00Z

Given the prominence of races like the Klingons and the Borg, it might seem as if Star Trek’s aliens are almost always villains. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

If aliens were to come to Earth and listen to nothing but for a week, they'd definitely gather relevant facts and opinion about the world we live in today. Rewind radio: Lives in a Landscape: Wheelchair Pusher Needed; Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation; The World Tonight – review 2013-03-16T22:50:01Z

Some cheekily wondered if it was planted there by aliens. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Politicians, the thinking went, often behaved like aliens, as if their bodies had been invaded by some outside force and they were not responsible for their actions, which often defied precedent or logic. In TV’s ‘BrainDead,’ bugs eat the brains of D.C. politicians. (It’s a metaphor.) 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

In the spirit of modern sci-fi movie thrillers like Avatar and District 9, the insider goes outside to join forces with the aliens. 2010-01-09T05:10:00Z

Now farm owners take advantage of seasonal workers, and locals feel increasingly alienated. ‘Elmet’ Backs a Brawny Man Into a Dangerous Corner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Grinding poverty, an alienated teenage girl, struggle, the search for dignity, the dream of something better, the fingernail grip on the cusp of the abyss. 'Stand by Me prepared me for reality': readers' favourite coming of age films 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Breyer said he would be concerned only if the state said it could arrest and jail illegal aliens on its own. Justices seem OK with immigration checks 2012-04-25T16:13:00Z

Also, does the alien DNA cause the disease or cure it? The X-Files episode six recap – a finale full of the good, the bad and the ugly 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Viewers resonated with Mulder’s personal stake in this story—after all, his sister was probably kidnapped by aliens, and he could sniff out conspiracy like a bloodhound. The truth is still out there: 5 mysteries we hope the “X-Files” reboot will resolve 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Spock as an alien — but there was no xenophobia, no racism ... Chris Pine: 'People Like Us' returns to old-school filmmaking 2012-06-20T22:49:05Z

It’s just not going to happen, so: “Let’s just embrace this. I’m an alien and that’s cool. I’m proud of it.” Gerard Way Talks About His Comeback Album, ‘Hesitant Alien.’ 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Throughout “Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts” de Hamel aims to humanize what are now slightly alien artifacts by telling us about the people who made them and the collectors, institutions and scholars who preserve them. This librarian loves ancient manuscripts and wants you to love them, too 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Still, he worries that he might turn some people off with a story that features space travel, aliens and a ridiculously high-stakes mission. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Harry often does not know where to look, and Tudyk somehow manages to make his face, well, utterly alien with his shifting glances, tight jawline and nearly closed mouth. When Harry met Asta: Syfy's kooky "Resident Alien" is a love story 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Written on the chalkboard: “ANXIETY DISORDERS,” “ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS,” “HEREDITARY FACTORS.” Pellington told me that his intention had been to portray a “shameful, alienated, picked-upon child.” Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” and the Intractable Cultural Script of School Shooters 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Despite all the cast changes, Sheldon remained emphatically misanthropic, self-centered, and alienated. How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

This episode’s cornball elements are on full display in its opening scene, as Axe’s forces break up a romance between two aristocratic aliens from different races. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Nuts and Revolts 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

But aliens do not always have to be sweet ET types. Cowboys v bankers 2011-08-26T19:59:00Z

I envision readers queuing up at midnight outside Tokyo bookstores: the alienated, the athletic, the disenchanted and the buoyant. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Their conversations are subtitled while those of their white captors, mainly abusing nuns, sound like alien gobbledygook. From "Suspiria" to Final Girls, "Reservation Dogs" director on putting a '70s spin on Native horror 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

An alien whom they discover makes for an unlikely ally. Best new science fiction and steampunk

Reports and photographs hint our heroes will ride a kind of alien horse through a backdrop of well-to-do citizens wearing the space equivalent of black tie formal wear. Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII – everything we know so far 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

This is not a universe of green aliens and toxic slime; instead, you explore dusty dwarf planets in your sixteenth-century-style space galleon, the Nightingale. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

These live musicals, sitcoms, reality series, musical-variety shows and socially conscious dramas pushed the envelope and alienated some viewers. Early-TV oddities, innovations to screen as part of UCLA archive's anniversary 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Hand makes his living thinking about what alien life might look like and how we can find it. Hollywood teams up with scientists to make sci-fi more believable 2012-06-09T04:32:03Z

Though TV brought his breakthrough — I still remember his remarkable alien invasion in "Mork & Mindy" — film quickly became the main forum for a talent that was as elastic as that face. Robin Williams seized the day in every role 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

A woman who manages a civilian search team for missing persons takes on the case of a landowner and lumber baron who alienated a lot of people, including his ambitious daughter, before he disappeared. 41 TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

“I felt like some sort of alien,” she said. Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Modernism, once promoted as a break from the country’s colonial past, came to be seen as equally alien — and alienating to international tourists. Brutalism Springs Eternal in Morocco 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

If a colleague saw you with "ideologically alien" music and informed the KGB, you could be barred from travelling abroad. Beatles for sale: The vinyl underground in the USSR 2012-10-05T07:06:49Z

She recalls the alien presence of strange figures in hazmat suits well enough to have sketched them out crudely on a piece of paper. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

The reflective metallic headgear worn by dancers in later sections: doesn’t that suggest these characters are divine but alien? Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z

Really, Other Space is a workplace self-discovery comedy about misfits finding their place, in a office that just happens to be floating in an alien dust cloud. Review: Other Space Is a Cosmic Blast 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

"If you were an alien and tried to deduce what was going on in the world from the bestselling music of the past 100 years you would struggle," he said. The Guardian made music: 'found' sounds and food, chiffchaffs and Labour contenders 2010-10-08T14:38:00Z

In the new movie’s story, his character was killed in 2007 while test piloting the first alien hybrid fighter due to an “unknown malfunction,” according to 20th Century Fox. Here's Why Will Smith's Character Won't Be in 'Independence Day: Resurgence' 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The carefully contrived nature of her search allows Murray to send her crisscrossing London among a variety of social strata, populated by eccentrics, bigwigs and average folks, deepening his portrait of this alien environment. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

His odd alien inflections turn what could be throwaway lines into meaningful, often hilarious moments. When Harry met Asta: Syfy's kooky "Resident Alien" is a love story 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Uniquely strange alien oddity that plays to Bowie's strengths. This week's new films 2012-06-15T23:05:17Z

Even outside the extraterrestrial environs of “Doctor Who,” Tennant has always registered as a slightly alien presence, rather like a more rarefied Johnny Depp. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z

The Teddy Award for best L.G.B.T.-themed feature film was given to “Brief Story From the Green Planet,” an Argentine film about friends who encounter an alien creature. ‘Synonyms,’ Drama by Israeli Director, Takes Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

From there, "Battleship" consists of an increasingly intense but ultimately repetitive back-and-forth between our military might and the aliens' more sophisticated ships. Review: `Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloat 2012-05-16T01:31:06Z

He’s an alien in the civilized Bohemia of the others. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The military said it was the wreckage of a balloon but some believe that an alien spaceship crashed at the site. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Original Cast Album: Company’ and ‘Songland’ 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

“He’s an alien from outer space one day. The next day, he is the president of the United States,” she says. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk

“Zurg, retract your antennae before someone notices we are undocumented aliens!” Style Invitational Week 1342: Mrgrs — combine two abbreviations 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Those included the physical resemblance between the alien commander in Platinum Studios' graphic novel, and the alien conqueror named "Morguu" that Busti created, the lawsuit says. Comic author claims "Cowboys & Aliens" idea stolen 2011-12-01T23:15:49Z

“The alien was burrowing into me even as I wrote the jaunty words about my own prematurely announced death.” ‘Mortality,’ by Christopher Hitchens 2012-08-31T22:50:05Z

One of a handful of Greek novels that were passed down to us, True History reads like a 1920s science fiction story from a pulp magazine, featuring aliens, interplanetary war, and a truly humongous whale. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z

The fact that the right was often the butt of the joke is the core of Flanagan’s argument that liberal satirists alienated Trump supporters and helped get him in office. Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

This ghostly aria for an alien formed the basis of an ideal closing number for “Cobra”: unpredictable, otherworldly, joyous. Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

It might have been dropped into its lush green field by modernist aliens. The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu 2011-06-24T19:06:22Z

For one of Europe's most in-demand stage directors, Los Angeles might seem like alien territory. Ivo van Hove brings his stripped-down 'View From the Bridge' to Los Angeles 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Bart Simpson as an alien  in “The Simpsons,” one show beamed into space. Critic?s Notebook: Science Channel Ponders ?Alien Encounters? 2012-03-19T22:13:00Z

Besides Dangal, these include “PK”, in which he played an alien dealing with religious divisions in India, and “3 Idiots”, about the frailties in India’s education system. Bollywood icon Aamir Khan says next film will be biggest yet 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

The national head is spinning with fever visions of brown-skinned alien rapists and beheaders and terror gangs, and of a mythical wall that the president says will protect “us” from “them.” A Different Perspective on the Border 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

And once more, as in “Black,” the place is swarming with alien monsters with big, sharp teeth and unpleasant dispositions. ‘Riddick’: A leaner, meaner sequel comes into view 2013-09-05T17:12:39Z

McQuarrie's name may not be as instantly recognizable to "Star Wars" fans as Lucas', but the late artist's mind dreamed up iconic images including Darth Vader's imposing mask and many alien landscapes depicted on canvas. 'Star Wars Rebels' artists voyage to Skywalker Ranch for inspiration 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

I remember feeling like an alien in a very strange land. Linda Lavin: The First Time I Sang in New York. (It Was a Bar Mitzvah) 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The Jewish minority in Berlin were betting on assimilation and acceptance, trying to distance themselves from their more alien landsmen to the east. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The aliens' look is unconvincing and forgettable, lacking either the deliberate cheesiness of "They Live" or the believability and grotesqueness of "Starship Troopers" and "District 9." "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

He quotes the Roman playwright Terence: “I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.” What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Pullman, who played the President responsible for rallying humanity against alien attackers in the “Independence Day” franchise, recounted meeting President Obama. How to Act Like the President of the United States 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

They are stranded on an alien planet where they must band together to fight for their lives. Adrien Brody flexes muscles in "Predators" 2010-07-10T00:44:00Z

But when a Facebook user named Matty Roberts from Bakersfield, California, invited people to run into Area 51 on foot in a large group “to see them aliens,” the Air Force cautioned against it. Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

The film sees the Hollywood actor return to his role as a government agent battling alien invasion on Earth. VIDEO: Will Smith on ears, Obama and 3D 2012-05-21T10:07:10Z

To twist that narrative on its head and make the Skrull the victims of a race of fascistic alien warriors, the Kree, was the kind of masterstroke that only Marvel could pull off. Superheroes and freaky cats: how Captain Marvel rewrote the rules 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Side Show” invites us once again to consider how the uneasy search for lasting companionship can make us all feel alienated at one time or another. ‘Side Show’ in a New Production at the Kennedy Center 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Now he's back on television in the new TV series, "Falling Skies," the much-anticipated alien invasion drama from executive producer Steven Spielberg. Noah Wyle chooses sci-fi series for TV comeback 2011-06-20T04:48:54Z

Other attention-getters on the exhibition floor included a glowing alien sleep chamber, Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and a working prop from the "Green Lantern" film due next year. Fans swarm San Diego as Comic-Con gets under way 2010-07-22T09:31:00Z

I had never felt truly comfortable in my body, but lately, it had been a bizarrely foreign entity, an alien encounter each time I looked in the mirror. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

"Alien Worlds" is a four-episode exploration of how we could apply what we know about life on Earth to visualize alien life. What's new on Netflix in December from "Big Mouth" & Chadwick Boseman to a bearded George Clooney 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

The black is so deep and endless, and the earth from that vantage point so alien, that he looks positively inconsequential. Stargazing across millennia in 'Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

At the beginning, with alien buzzards circling and hyena creatures stalking, it looks like curtains for the battered, bloodied hero. ‘Riddick’: A leaner, meaner sequel comes into view 2013-09-05T17:12:39Z

Life was simple and many places – schools, hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, creches, nurseries, playgrounds – were alien to me. I thought I had hit the age of peak happiness. How wrong I was 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

His debut movie is a sci-fi action comedy about a London teen gang in South London who must defend their tower block against an alien invasion. The best films for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:01Z

Returns March 30, with a much larger alien fleet on the way. Television: As They Were Saying ... (Network Dramas Return) 2010-03-01T06:21:00Z

And there were large-scale, puppet-and-dance visualizations of the aliens that the Disney Hall crowd never saw. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

He inhabits “Changeling”; it never looks like alien terrain. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Roseanne’s Trumpism has alienated her from some fans too, who say it doesn’t sound like the feminist who stood up to her bosses and shot down sexist pigs. Review: On ‘Roseanne,’ Times Have Changed, but They’re Still Tough 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

There are also a few who question whether Mr. Tkachenko-Papizh is, perhaps, an alien being used “as a vessel to deliver a message.” Man Sings Like Nature, and Listeners Swoon 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Adam Sandler hates a lot of things—adulthood, aliens, and most of humanity. Adam Sandler is finished: Why “Pixels” may be his last gasp of crude misogyny 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Collectively titled Miles To Go Before I Sleep, these are dream images of every child's fear of being abandoned in the big wilderness of alien nature. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

At 63, she has hung on to that resolve, sloughing off layers that strike her as inauthentic or alien to the character she crafted in the ’70s, as the gangly diva of downtown punk. Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z

Generally speaking, alien movies tend to go one of either two ways: horror or tenderness. ‘Jules’ Review: Close Encounters of the Lonely Kind 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

They look around and ask the alien creatures which idiot put that damp course in. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-18T14:00:01Z

“They feel alienated, disaffected, angry — a lot of the things a mother feels about a child with a disability.” Andrew Solomon, ‘Far From the Tree,’ Parents and Children 2012-11-18T22:48:41Z

The glowing green alien invaders of the game, unlike the funerals that begin to overwhelm their waking lives, can be stopped. November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

This is not a story about pious blowhards whose unbending conviction alienated their children forever. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing was lost and nowhere was alien to this most complete of artists. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

This is an alien invasion film after all. Dark Skies trailer: pretty normal activity for Jason Blum 2012-11-28T12:59:59Z

But she said she had traveled widely in Europe, where the descendants of 1960s guest workers have formed an alienated underclass. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z

One thing about aliens, you do what you want. Legendary Creature Creator Rick Baker Talks Aliens and Men in Black 3 2012-05-24T10:45:45Z

You no longer need a superstar to dress like a space alien to tell you that it’s okay to be yourself. Review | Everything feels heavy in 2017, even the Jingle Ball 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

It begins when a large corporate toy company, looking to get an edge on the market, programs two factions of action figures — one an alien race known as the Gorgonites, the other a pseudo-G.I. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Toy Story 3'? Find out more about John Lasseter, the man behind the toys 2010-06-17T20:15:00Z

Star Trek writers were skilled at constantly adding depth to the aliens who reappeared through the series. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

A couple of battered suitcases folded into the mix read as stand-ins for the artist himself, politically alienated from his homeland and always on the global move. Review: Independent Art Fair Combines Less Is More and Growth 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The film centers on a teacher who is unwittingly granted special powers by aliens.  Robin Williams: Six new movies he left behind 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Steven Hiller helped save the world from invading aliens, decided not to sign on for the movie, which hits theaters June 24. Here's Why Will Smith's Character Won't Be in 'Independence Day: Resurgence' 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

What you’ve seen him in: Battling aliens in “Attack the Block” and attempting to help revive Kiefer Sutherland’s career in Fox’s “24: Live Another Day.” 5 up-and-comers to watch in 2015 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

"Independence Day" is an alien invasion film that was born of the end of the Cold War and this false belief in global American triumphalism and the"end of history." "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Actually, I heard the aliens are already here,” Baldwin’s Trump says. WATCH: Commander in chief Donald Trump fumbles his way through an alien attack 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Plenty of aliens get their squishy butts kicked, but there may not be any combat or strategy lessons to be applied in Iraq or Afghanistan. Battle: Los Angeles ? review 2011-03-10T22:00:00Z

But the best SF understands that there are more interesting things to do with the alien than that. War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? 2013-04-08T09:00:01Z

His smirked verses hang over the beat like a smoggy alien sunset, evoking paranoia in paradise, dystopia at the magic hour, an endless summer dissolving into the end of days. Perspective | Listening to Los Angeles rap music feels like eavesdropping on the future 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Did we prevent an alien invasion, or are the government's super-soldiers proof that the Syndicate has been in league with them all along? J.J. Abrams still smarts from "Lost" finale criticism 2011-08-04T23:05:00Z

As a young kid though he remembers thinking the Rock Savage chemical plant "looked like a huge alien space station". Baltic Fleet – New Band Up North #33 2013-07-22T16:00:00Z

“Sometimes the alien is right in your own home,” he says. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z

I’ve been the good guy, the bad guy, the psycho, the alien. Leonard Nimoy Views Others as Mass MoCA 2010-07-28T15:39:00Z

My characters tend to negotiate the world with a mixture of fear and wonder; for them, it is a place at once both beautiful and alien. This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

We had never really seen a movie where a guy who worked for the power company met the aliens. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg on Bridge of Spies, Racism in Hollywood and Star Wars 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

New York City is so alien to us, but now we’ve found a home here.” Bo?te: A NoMad Bar With a Pub Vibe 2010-03-26T21:27:00Z

With its enigmatically alienated lyrics, Arcade Fire's Rococo might easily pass as one of the post-punk songs written by the musician in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z

We were casting the visuals in the show — the animal and alien masks — as well as casting the people. Dating is tough. Could dressing up as a praying mantis help? 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question – why am I here? Superman: Man of Steel ? is this the blue boy scout's big-screen comeback? 2011-08-18T15:59:52Z

Even the alien knew a queen when he saw one. Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The more alien and difficult they were to grow, the greater the satisfaction to the gardener. A bonnie glimpse of the exotic 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

"It's actually a perfect show for Twisted Media because it's aliens and sci-fi and all sorts of computers and technical, science stuff," Frederickson said. Geekery leverages duo into TV 2010-12-21T22:44:00Z

With golfers and townspeople rapidly disappearing, the Doctor must employ the help of Bryony the receptionist and an alien bounty hunter with very low self-esteem to outsmart one of the strongest telepathic entities alive. A new ‘Dr. Who’ and other best sci-fi and fantasy for July 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Essential Pineapple Dance Studios Update Last week they had aliens dancing in a field to the Prodigy's Out Of Space cut with shots of an earnest crop circle meeting in a pub. From Big Boi to Pretty Green, this week's winners and losers 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

It’s hard to miss them, however, since the straight black wigs and oddly cut, closefitting costumes they wear make them look like androgynous alien joggers. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Like Jackson’s characters, Moshfegh’s protagonists, almost always women, are alienated, aloof and refuse to conform to social norms — and are thus perceived as more than a little threatening by those around them. In Ottessa Moshfegh’s New Novel, Nothing Is Certain. Not Even Death. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

It would be except that in becoming alien Jake and Wikus realize what we can only call their humanity — their compassion and courage, their ability to love and sacrifice. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z

In “Satellites,” the song that followed Bilal’s alien monologue, he observes human failures from a galactic distance — not an unusual vantage for him, you imagine. Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The goggles and the lack of any facial hair make him look distinctly alien. Disappearing ink 2012-12-26T01:00:00Z

Even people who are naturally funny, like these two, are not always funny — not at a dinner table and not in this slapdash confection of an alien comedy. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z

However, I liked Pegg's cheerful memory of how Frost once typed something about aliens into Google and then burst into tears hearing the phone ring, because he thought it was the FBI. Paul ? review 2011-02-10T22:46:01Z

Spread between several big rooms, his often huge digital prints show a world both mundane and dramatic, familiar and alien. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review 2013-07-06T23:07:32Z

“It felt so alien and uninviting,” he recalls of the area’s imposing architecture and implicit sense of wealth — “a different world” from the north London council estate where he and his family lived. The Artist Who Dreamed Up a Kaleidoscopic Basketball Court for London’s Canary Wharf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

But I did enjoy "WildCATs 3.0," the third version of the Covert Action Team, wherein they use their superabilities to really improve the world ... by becoming a multinational corporation and selling beneficial alien technology. Comics: "Hybrid Bastards" provides some good, dirty fun 2010-09-21T19:27:00Z

At the time Mr. Jackson was just finishing his first feature film, a comedy-horror-science fiction mash-up called “Bad Taste,” about aliens who need human flesh to serve at an intergalactic fast-food chain. Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z

Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion. 2010-02-02T06:07:00Z

The kicker is that the alien is a malevolent shape-shifter who can take on the identity of any man or beast who comes into contact with it. 'The Thing': a warmed-over creature feature 2011-10-13T13:55:23Z

The aliens, armed with laser guns, are tricky little devils who don’t reveal themselves completely until late in the movie. Movie Review: ‘The Watch,’ With Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn 2012-07-26T23:50:07Z

They thus invite us to contemplate what it might mean to encounter alien beings who really are entirely alien. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z

Mr. Harrell seems driven to make transparent all of the various skins we pull over our original one, to show how alien they are and how much they matter. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11?s ?Me, Michelle? and ?Antigone Jr.? - Review 2011-11-16T23:59:21Z

His men were handsome, his women were beautiful, and the landscapes he drew — alien or westerns or battlefields — always seemed lushly authentic. Al Williamson, ?Flash Gordon? Comic Artist, Dies at 79 2010-06-21T04:04:00Z

Not all connected, like last year's "Chasing UFOs," about alien hunters, or "American Gypsies." A reboot for the National Geographic Channel 2013-04-11T14:04:09Z

The film is Sony's second big-budget hit this summer, following the success of alien comedy "Men in Black 3" in May. New "Spider-Man" comes out swinging in box office win 2012-07-08T22:38:36Z

“Years from now,” he said, “when the Earth is just a burning husk and the aliens visit, they will find a box of these, and they will know just how predictable these f_____ _____ are.” The Emmys’ Balancing Act: Predictable, Except When Not 2012-09-24T12:00:40Z

She rejected religion, and the "densely Jewish" atmosphere and "very Jewish food regime" of her parents' household, in which Marmite, honey and marmalade were treated as alien substances. Linda Grant 2011-01-17T08:00:01Z

In that way, this is a novel determined to pay attention to the most alienated, those people discarded in Istanbul’s Cemetery of the Companionless. Review | Elif Shafak continues to resist Turkey’s repressive government with brilliant fiction 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

"I have no idea," he says, explaining with cheer that would seem alien to Louie, "I love the curiosity factor. That's what keeps me going. I love wondering what's going to happen next." Louis CK back for Season 4 of 'Louie' done his way 2014-05-01T15:26:49Z

Consequently, he was categorized as an “enemy alien” when Japan and America were at war. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a Modernist Often Overlooked, Gets a Smithsonian Retrospective 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

It was genuinely creepy seeing the Skitter place a calming hand/claw/tentacle on "her" sleeping slaves, a strange and alien moment, and hearing the beast cooing gently to send them off to sleep. Falling Skies: episode five 2011-08-02T21:05:01Z

In the pilot, polyglot alliances are tricky as humans and some races of aliens must reluctantly brush aside differences to protect the town from automatons known as the Volge. Sci-fi TV show ''Defiance'' dovetails drama with video game 2013-04-08T18:58:51Z

In our increasingly alienated modern lives, an appropriate poem can be more helpful than many forms of therapy. Paperback Q&A: William Sieghart on Winning Words 2012-07-31T17:33:00Z

What if all these fantastic characters that Gaga has played — meat-frock maven, alien pod hatchling, estranged David Bowie cousin — were mere disguises for a careerist with no greater goal than her own success? Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’: Where the freaks have no game 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

In fact, if an alien came to Earth and used these song lyrics as any indication of how we experienced summer, it would be terrifying. From “Bent” to “Fancy”: What the past 10 songs of the summer say about us 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

He returned to space, albeit much more reluctantly, in this spoof of “Star Trek,” playing the washed-up lead actor of a sci-fi space show who is contacted by aliens who believe his adventures are real. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Brockmire’ and ‘Iron Chef Gauntlet’ 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Lots of cool planes and ships and nifty little machines and wacky little creatures zip around all over strange alien landscapes. Should You Take Your Kid to See 'Star Wars'? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

During the hours that followed, he came to believe that he was an alien living the life of “Tao Lin,” canceled promotional events for his novel “Taipei” and put his computer into a dumpster. Tao Lin and the Grueling Art of Self-Healing 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Television audiences are ruthless — look what happened to ‘The Killing,’ ” he said, referring to the AMC drama that alienated many viewers with an ambiguous season-ending episode. Arts & Leisure: Damian Lewis of ?Homeland? on Showtime 2011-12-09T21:13:41Z

Like David Bowie before her and Lil Wayne since, Björk posits herself as an alien observer taking giddy notes on a species that obeys “definitely, definitely, definitely no logic.” All is full of love: Listening for Bjork’s radical humanity 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Even in their inscrutability, both sequences speak to a quality of accessibility heretofore largely alien to Denis’s cerebral canon. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 8 – High Life 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The familiar and the defamiliarized is a recurring theme, and one essentially derived from theater, a safe space where we expect to see strange and alien things. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

They’re actually aliens from another planet that came to Earth in the guise of automobiles – the perfect disguise. The worst TV pilots ever: a Waterworld prequel, drag-racing PIs and furry fetish 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Directed and adapted by Gavin Hood, the film will star Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a gifted child who is sent to a military school in space to prepare for an alien invasion. Activists call for Ender's Game boycott over author's anti-gay views 2013-07-09T10:41:39Z

The group’s first single, with its bee-like guitar riff, propulsive beat and dissonant harmonies in the chorus, is about a woman who wakes up with her new husband and feels alienated and repulsed. Six Hopefuls Worth Watching at the CMJ Music Marathon 2012-10-15T21:47:30Z

So far there is no extinction, unless Halle Berry’s alien fetus is somehow going to destroy us all. Extant series premiere: Halle Berry's space conception is not immaculate 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

These move around in a pattern while space-age music plays, with the aliens trying to be captured by “the claw” that hangs overhead. Walk Among Giants — Woody Included — at Disney World's New Toy Story Land 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The saga centres on a planetary defence force which fights back against alien invasion by setting up bases on the extra-terrestrials' home world, using a wormhole over Antarctica. Tom Cruise to star in Japanese sci-fi saga Yukikaze 2013-04-16T09:51:29Z

There are the aliens, a squabbling group who scorn humans but don’t seem to be making much progress in their mission to dominate the planet. Review: The Alien Abductees of ‘People of Earth’ Keep the Humor Grounded 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

A new poll has identified the spine-tingling denouement of ET, in which the alien visitor bids farewell to Elliott and sets off for home in his spaceship, as cinema's most powerful moment. ET finale voted most powerful cinematic moment 2011-03-07T16:48:16Z

You’ve also got a title piece — “Killing and Dying” — which is mostly about an alienated teenage girl who wants to become a stand-up comedian. Adrian Tomine’s bittersweet Gen X vision: “This is the book of mine so far that I feel is the least judgmental of humanity” 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Funny, yes, but on the other side of this laughter is the loneliness of being an alien on your own soil. Bearing ‘The Weight’ of Feeling Alone 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

They may at some point wonder why they feel alienated from their non-lawyer peers, most of whom are safely in a trauma-free bubble with the rest of the general public. Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

The association is driven home all the time in sci-fi and fantasy by casting actors of colour as aliens. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

Everyone knows there are evil aliens out there already. Readers recommend: songs about space ? results 2011-08-18T14:35:12Z

These pictures are displayed as miraculous images of hope – even while, paradoxically, confronting us with a view of human life deeply alien to our experience. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

The concept to this sci-fi comedy is appealing from the outset: invading aliens don't like alcohol, so an Irish fishing community must stay drunk to survive – impaired decision-making abilities notwithstanding. This week's new films 2012-12-29T00:05:51Z

The show is created with “virtual production” techniques, including LED video walls that display alien landscape backgrounds. New episodes of Disney+ hit ‘Mandalorian’ coming in October 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

And for all of its faults in depicting autism, at least "The Predator" had cool aliens. Watching “Atypical” with autism: Still flawed, but season 2 shows growth 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

There is a wider problem with the whole exercise of mapping people of colour on to fantasy or alien species. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

Interspersed between his bestselling, much praised historical fictions were his weak efforts to extend the Myra formula to religion and similar topics, which confused and alienated readers of his historical titles and were not funny. Gore Vidal remembered by Jason Epstein 2012-12-22T22:44:01Z

The premise of pregnant people as "hosts" sounds like a line from a particularly sexist alien movie, but it's a premise that's become deeply embedded in our politics. Netflix's serial killer thriller "You" poses a pregnant question about personhood 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

I imagined that I was beating gnomes or fighting aliens or searching for the Loch Ness monster. Disney's 'Gravity Falls' Creator on How to Create a Show for All Ages 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, her character is English, which helps her to seem satisfyingly alien and bonkers in a world of blah New Yorkers. What, no Whistlestop? Why The Girl on the Train should have stayed in bleak backyard Britain 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

I can respect the fact that some or many viewers will be alienated or confused or simply bored by the circuitous journey that's required to get to that balcony scene. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Q: What does "Arrival" offer that is so different from what we usually see in sci-fi alien films? A Minute With: Amy Adams on 'Arrival,' awards and 'Disenchanted' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

This book takes us through her years at the National Security Council under Mr. Scowcroft and her disputatious tenure as the Stanford provost, where she slashed budgets and alienated much of the faculty. Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z

There’s an invidious presumption that if you believe in X religion, then you must be part of an alien culture that’s un-American. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z

Once the aliens use a force field of sorts to separate three Navy vessels from the remainder of the fleet, we start to get closer to the actual scope of a Battleship board. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z

Ever wondered what it's like to be killed by a giant alien or a blazing fireball? From virtual reality to stars, five highlights from Comic-Con 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

You may notice that these more recent films increasingly capitalize on Johansson’s intelligence and not just her body: she’s played and tricky alien, a computer, and now in Lucy, the smartest woman in the world. Scarlett Johansson, Lucy and the Future of the Female Action Star 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Ne-Yo said he was mainly attracted to the role in "Battle: LA," about a Marine platoon fighting aliens intent on colonizing Earth, because it didn't require him to use his musical talents. Ne-Yo has No. 1 movie but deals with poor CD sales 2011-03-16T11:58:08Z

The dance meter is so flat, the manner so objective that the performers seem both alienated from the music and driven by it. Review: Hail the Stars and Stripes, and the Radical Moves 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

They in turn called him "Rufus Cornpone" and saw him as a Texas Hill Country alien in the new, sophisticated, glib and glamorous Washington. Robert Caro's 'The Passage of Power': the death of a president, the birth of a new vision 2012-05-09T21:15:04Z

Political realities are what they are, and right now it’s looking like Trump won’t get in position to deport the illegal aliens he’s hired, so why all the worry? A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

I talk a lot about aliens and conspiracy theories. Terry Richardson?s Photographs Provoke and Reveal 2012-03-02T23:29:02Z

Photograph: Gary Calton Themes of alien love, family values and puppetry look set to dominate next year's Sundance film festival after the lineup for the festival in Park City, Utah, was announced yesterday. Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur bids to shine in Sundance film festival lineup 2010-12-02T14:07:00Z

It was hyped to the hilt and suitably eventful, even as King and Lady Gaga regarded each other with the bemusement of a human encountering an alien life form. After 25 years, King is giving up his CNN throne 2010-12-16T14:46:04Z

The treatment of the aliens looks like it’s only going to get worse when the government hires a multinational company with sinister motives to relocate the extraterrestrials to a new site outside of the city. What’s on TV Monday: ‘His Dark Materials’ and a Classic Courtroom Drama 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

But we’re not talking about some fantasy realm or alien planet here. Controlling the World, on Your iPhone 2011-07-15T17:13:59Z

Cactuses rear up, an alien life form in humid New York. Critical Shopper: Proenza Schouler on Madison Avenue: Critical Shopper 2012-09-20T00:01:02Z

Your field guide to alien invaders They arrive in silver saucers, sun-blotting mother ships and boiling thunderclouds. Your field guide to alien invaders 2011-03-12T00:30:00Z

Mr. Begley goes on: “He wasn’t despairing or thwarted or resentful; he wasn’t alienated or conflicted or drunk; he quarreled with no one.” Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

She was praised for her deft characterizations of alienated people and her sensitivity to the nuances of family relationships. Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard dies 2014-01-02T18:47:15Z

In a place where pickup trucks abound, I am an alien whose spaceship bears Massachusetts plates. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Dark Skies is about people being possessed by an alien. Dark Skies trailer: pretty normal activity for Jason Blum 2012-11-28T12:59:59Z

We’re sympathetic to her hustle—you gotta what you gotta do—but our sympathies would be alien to Thackeray, who imagined her as a pure opportunist, aiming to hoodwink fools and snobs. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Currently titled The Predator, this will be the fourth in the series featuring the invisible, bloodthirsty alien, which was put on the map by the 1987 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Benicio del Toro set to take on Predator 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

This is alienated work and alienated work sucks. I’m going crazy in my job 2012-10-18T00:00:00Z

Thus, Kershenbaum predicts that alien life will bear striking parallels to earthly life. When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Contemporary practitioners might agree with the poem’s conclusion: that witchcraft is not alien at all. Are the Salem Witch Trials Part of Women’s History? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

First, there is “The Neighbors,” ABC’s highest-profile new comedy, about a family that moves into a suburban community populated by aliens. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z

But most of all, he wanted to find out what happens to a discredited creed's followers, as they move into an alien new world. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z

There are elements of “The Avengers” – alien invasion force; mysterious artifact – that we’ve just seen in other movies that haven’t fared very well. ArtsBeat: Joss Whedon on Assembling 'The Avengers' 2012-04-11T14:00:26Z

“The art community didn’t get plopped down here by aliens,” he said. Pérez Art Museum Miami Recalls Pink Islands 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

I was not interested in aliens, and that’s what I assumed the show was about. ‘The X-Files’: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Return to the Paranormal Beat 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

But the delight of this odd, humane show is how it rearranges old alien tropes to find a new way to say what “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” once did: We are not alone. Review: ‘People of Earth’ Returns for Affectingly Close Encounters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Run Boy Run is epic – the kind of thing you can imagine soundtracking a spectacular battle scene between Earthlings and blue aliens. New band of the day - Woodkid (No 1,437) 2013-01-23T17:08:03Z

You want to see the Allen kids’ emotions to expand beyond adolescent sass, given the weirdness of the aliens’ arrival and the pathos of mom’s illness. Suburban alienation meets aliens in Margaret Wappler's 'Neon Green' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

If he did not exist, 21st-century popular culture would have to invent him: a sentient robot, an empathetic space alien, a warm-blooded salamander with crazy sex appeal. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

It can feel like these are written in alien, but if you somehow didn't major in manufacturer lingo, fear not, our pro has a cheat sheet. Your couch is calling for a clean (and you must go) 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

How am I supposed to explain to a child the superimposition of cultural generalizations onto toy cars and monsters and space aliens? Riff: How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids 2012-06-16T04:00:05Z

Ms. Martin finds the fear of alien views reappearing in episodes as old as the Alien and Sedition Acts and as recent as post-9/11 laws that increase the government’s power to detain foreigners. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z

Because while the world imagined in classic sci-fi novel “Dune” may be entirely alien, Pacific Northwest author Frank Herbert first dreamed it up on a visit to the Oregon Dunes just outside Florence. How ‘Dune’ was inspired by the Oregon coast, at the beautiful Oregon Dunes 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

It is astounding how in control of his body D’Onofrio is and how he manages realistically to convey a bug alien trying to get to grips with the human form. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Rick points out that two of the aliens in the group don't seem worried. 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The highly acclaimed trilogy of Chinese science-fiction novels collectively known as “Three-Body,” in which Earth is threatened with invasion by technologically superior aliens, is generally understood to reflect historical Chinese anxieties about Western domination. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

She looks at me like I am an alien, but other students are listening, quietly, and they will approach me in private later. When stalking is part of the "college experience" 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

What may look arcane, pagan or alien — that “Wicker Man” vibe I thought I wanted — is largely a celebration of “community, history and localism,” Ms. Neale says. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Low-budget sci-fi plus indie date movie equals alternative credentials, as a couple trek through a futuristic Mexico infested with aliens and metaphors. This week's new films 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

Related: The Bachelor: season 20, episode four recap – are these people space aliens? The Bachelor season 20, episode 5: this is the dawning of the age of amazing 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

So many games dehumanize enemies, letting us cleave through hordes of bandits and aliens while feeling nothing for any of them. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Exploring Meaningful Violence 2013-12-27T13:01:52Z

They too easily become migrant tides, aliens, collateral, unidentified and unidentified with. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

It adds to the pleasure of a play like this to see a familiar artist successfully taking on a slightly alien form. Review | Swipe right on the dating comedy ‘Other Life Forms’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Sam Claflin, who as Ryle takes a very different turn from his character in the "Hunger Games", was drawn to the script because it depicted a world alien to his own experience. UK class, entitlement unleash violence in film 'The Riot Club' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

There, Levi conjured a Stygian exoplanet of glissandos and microtones and processed percussive sounds, evoking the truly alien better than the most lavish special effects ever could have done. Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Syfy invites aliens to Earth in Defiance, which kicks off April 15. March madness: TV's newest season 2013-01-31T14:11:57Z

Shayne Chammavanijakul, a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, felt let down by the way some magazines depicted Asian cuisines — framed as alien, styled with visual clichés and oversimplified. A New Generation of Food Magazines Thinks Small, and in Ink 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

But the broader aim of the group, also known as ISIS, is to inspire alienated Muslims to enlist in a global battle against Christians, Jews, apostates and infidels. ISIS and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Williamson, who has been quick to reject his thrust-upon status as poet laureate of the alienated English underclasses, would likely roll his buggy, bored eyes at such sentiments. Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Pater may have been a creature of 19th-century spiritualism and aestheticism, his sensibility as alien to the Renaissance as to our own era of metrics and algorithms. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

As a précis, the plot feels tight enough: three rebels smuggle themselves into an alien landscape to make their dreams come true. Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s interminably dull 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Stalker” is the movie we need right now 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

There's a large group of people who feel politically alienated, threatened economically and stifled socially. Richard Klein on why BBC4 is the corporation's best-loved channel 2010-10-11T06:00:00Z

The idea of a company of professionals hundreds or thousands of miles from Broadway uniting to start a serious theatrical venture was largely alien before the 1940s. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a lot of alienated, disaffected suburban and working-class white Americans. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

They both feel like aliens in the society they’re living in. Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Those stories trafficked in an emotional landscape of mysterious aliens, government plots, and kids who outwit their inept parents and other adults. Just like ’80s nerd heaven: The seductive nostalgia of “Stranger Things” — and my unexpected ambivalence 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

He isn’t wrong; indeed, she says she was abducted by aliens herself. ‘We Are Living Things’ Review: The Truth Is Out There 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Is it even possible to write Superman, an alien powered by Earth’s yellow sun who’s largely indestructible save a nasty allergy to glowing green rocks, in a compelling way? How the New 'Batman v Superman' Trailer Totally Changed My Mind 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

With Will Smith reportedly on board, do you want to see another round or two of alien invasion mayhem? Is the world ready for an Independence Day sequel? | Ben Child 2010-03-31T11:17:00Z

In the close-up, we come face to face with the stark white mass itself, and it’s surprising just how alien and difficult to parse it is. Beauty in the Aftermath 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

“As alien as this person is to who I truly am, I had to understand her and empathize and get into that mind-set,” Ms. Blunt added. Emily Blunt Rides the Unnerving Rails of Addiction in ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Last spring, the directors held their first formal audition, a ritual that felt almost alien, they said, to what had always been a small company of familiar collaborators. ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z

Brilliantly photographed by Ernest Laszlo, the movie is visually jagged, angular and out of kilter, with its characters alienated and dehumanised, disorientated by their landscape. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

“I just want to see aliens,” she said. At the Area 51 ‘raid,’ the real alien invaders were the friends they made along the way 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

But children alienated from their parents, like converts with no family context, were vulnerable to extremists. Inside the Minds of the Women Who Joined ISIS 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Emphasizing Bruckner’s supposed victimization by manipulative editors, Haas presented his edition as the reclaiming of Bruckner’s pure original texts, purged of alien elements, for “Greater Germany.” Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z

Individually they constitute a cocksure human thief, a green female alien, a bald blue bruiser and a talking raccoon who never goes anywhere without his personal bodyguard... a walking tree named Groot. Galaxy's quest to put fun in fantasy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Harry's attraction to blue aliens isn't a one-time gag; it's a multi-episode quirk, and it's not a gag at all but part of his development as a character. The surprisingly sex positive "Resident Alien" 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

So were street artist Calder Greenwood and the public-art organization Now Art L.A., which produced wild art installations at the siren sites conjuring the destruction of the alien invasion, as well as the aliens themselves. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Note the gigantic surgical lamp hovering over Debra Booth’s huge creep-out set like a menacing robotic arm, or like some alien craving the next autopsy. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

The alien innocents in their aviator helmets, miniskirts and colorful hose, expressed the explosion of a new youth culture. Pierre Cardin: One Step Ahead of Tomorrow 2010-03-22T21:00:00Z

For when you really can't get enough of aliens blowing up LA. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-19T00:06:06Z

In other news, Simon Pegg has claimed responsibility after a Chinese farmer claimed to have found a dead alien and stored it in his freezer. All-male Egyptian sitcom leaves women out of laughs 2013-06-18T14:15:00Z

Many of the believers are alienated from society but they find other people like them who believe in conspiracies and together they create a sense of meaning for their lives. "Corrosive beliefs are at the heart of what America is": James Tynion on conspiracy theories 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

"What if I were the Chosen One?" and "What if we fought a war with aliens?" 'Icons of Science Fiction' show at EMP|SFM blasts off 2012-05-30T22:34:05Z

Humans can wear and operate this alien armor, which is equipped with a face-hugger mask, naturally. "The Predator": Ellen Ripley’s return was filmed for one of three alternate endings 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

So Genesis paints the heart-breaking picture of the world, with human beings alienated from one another and from the non-human creation. The Book of Genesis, part 4: The problem and the answer 2011-01-03T10:00:02Z

Arguing for art for its own sake is equally alien to both the main parties. When culture is treated as commodity, no wonder its temples are sold off 2013-05-22T13:18:35Z

“I felt like an alien walking through the streets of New York, because we’ve all been used to wearing leggings, dark colors and sneakers. This is a real awakening.” The Gala Season Restarts with Hats Galore 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

A few more theories said the plane's disappearance was tied to an insurance scam, an undisclosed semiconductor technology and, yes, even aliens. “MH370”: The 6 most shocking theories surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

And the aliens just love it here, according to George Pal's 1953 War Of The Worlds, Them!, LA gets blown up once again in Battle: Los Angeles 2011-03-05T00:07:41Z

A thought occurs: This is a bit like visiting another planet, where alien life-forms seem just as interested in us as we in them. In Mexico’s Magdalena Bay, humans and whales meet up 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

A tweak here, a nip there, and Goude catapults his muses into the realm of almost alien perfection. Paris retrospective celebrates ad man Goude 2011-11-11T12:46:03Z

Petit employs the language of ballet to create a drama about an alienated hero who ends up, despite a devoted girlfriend, flinging himself through a window. Dance Review: The Paris Opera Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2012-07-12T21:49:08Z

Theoretical geneticist Dr. Marianne Jenner makes a seemingly minor discovery that catches the interest of aliens camping out in New York. Best new science fiction for summer 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The cartoon was the one with aliens emerging from a spacecraft that was shaped like an old-fashioned two-slice toaster. The booby prize 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

As for “Close Encounters,” one of its few letdowns was the way those aliens, once they stopped dallying and stepped forward, conformed to the bulbous-headed, big-eyed stereotype. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

Yet it also made me consider Donald Barthelme’s question, in his short story “A Shower of Gold”: “How can you be alienated without first having been connected?” In ‘Godsend,’ an Idealistic Young Woman Gets Tangled Up in Trouble in Afghanistan 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Consumed” is a metaphor in this case, but sometimes it feels almost literal, as if our country and its public discourse had been eaten by alien invaders or a viral epidemic. Salon’s Trump-free Tuesday: For one day, we won’t publish his name or his picture 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

His parents were self-absorbed and unloving; he felt alienated at home and in school: “I was always looking for a teacher. I was always looking for a father.” Review | André Gregory’s ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ is a free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Clive, meanwhile, the son of Brian and Mary’s now broken marriage, becomes alienated and withdrawn, the violent words his parents hurl at each other flaying his spirits. Theater Review: ‘Brand New Ancients’ Stars Kate Tempest in a Tragic Tale 2014-01-14T23:43:02Z

He’s like an alien, only with a knife instead of a probe. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“When you come into that as a woman, you are an alien to some degree because you think differently.” Laura Ziskin, Producer of ?Spider-Man? Films, Dies at 61 2011-06-13T22:36:08Z

"It is as if everyone else is an alien." Edinburgh festival comedians stand up for Burmese protester Zarganar 2010-08-11T13:44:00Z

Walt is becoming as much an alien -- an undesirable Other -- as the illegals who have periodically sneaked across the border throughout the show's run. Recap: "Breaking Bad" 4x3, "Open House" 2011-08-01T18:30:00Z

The unadorned politics that characterized this later period — and a newfound activism that included joining demonstrations and writing angry editorials — alienated some readers. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

Liv Redpath soared above the male principals and a male chamber chorus like an alien creature from planet Puccini. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z

Anders and Farkas said soon users will be able to select their “race,” for there are so many different alien races in the Star Trek universe. ‘Trekkie Dating’ Site Is Pretty Much Exactly Like It Sounds 2012-10-22T18:00:59Z

Come for the aliens and stay for the naval warfare, and you’ll wind up raving about the patriotic salutes. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z

I find it hard to be enthusiastic about the rest of the first half, purely on account of the choice of music I find temperamentally alien. Review: Israel Philharmonic plays familiar Mahler with unfamiliar lightness 2011-02-27T20:30:05Z

In “Stranger Things,” by contrast, it’s the non-human that’s scary, and, when evil reveals itself, it does so through displays of senseless, alien incongruity.  The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

The actress even injects new life into a sci-fi stock character — the alien whose connection to emotion is theoretical. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

“There’s this dance you do on Instagram and way you network yourself. We’re like, in ‘Toy Story,’ the aliens in that machine waiting for the claw to pick them up. Is This the Golden Age of Drag? Yes. And No. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Their sci-fi-geek tourists get into scrapes when they harbour Rogen's fugitive alien in their Winnebago, with more celebrity and less hilarity than with their previous outings. This week's new films 2011-02-19T00:05:41Z

In another set of old forum posts, a much younger Sol concludes, in a frustrated flood of meta-analysis, that there was never any metaphor behind the shape-shifting alien race in “Feet of Clay.” He’s a Transgender Archivist and a Vampire, and He’s in Love 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Your character mentors a child who is training to be a military specialist and fight future alien invasions. A Minute With: Harrison Ford on flying and new film 'Paranoia' 2013-08-07T16:41:08Z

The airplane is moving in an alien environment at high altitude, of course. What It’s Really Like to Be an Airline Pilot 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Young or old, artists, farmers or entrepreneurs, they tend to be frustrated, adrift and confused, at once alienated from their society and unable to break free of it. ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ Review: A Gambler and a Writer at Odds 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

It is also so contrary to modern celebrity ethos, which treats romance as a branding opportunity, that it seems downright alien. How weird does a celebrity have to be before we stop watching their films? 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

Writing in Film Comment some decades ago, I argued that the Micheaux oeuvre threw American “history and movies into an alien and startling disarray.” ‘Pioneers of African-American Cinema’: Black Filmmaking Aborning 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In Houellebecq’s morally complex novel, an alienated French professor and a France without faith or values yield to an Islamic government. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Owens' aliens, it was clear, are a benevolent species. Business casual needn't apply: Paris is outrageous 2010-09-30T18:37:00Z

Toomes, bitter that Stark is getting even richer by cleaning up his own mess, decides to collect alien weapons to sell on the black market and does so for years until confronted by Spider-Man. 20 Easter Eggs You Probably Didn't Notice in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Navy fleet repelling an alien invasion, covered most of its bets by opening in foreign climes a month before it docked in the States. Unstoppable Avengers Sinks Battleship, Ousts The Dictator 2012-05-20T20:45:12Z

“I think a lot of people from the Asian diaspora have this sense that these objects, these signs, are familiar, but at the same time alien.” Oscar yi Hou’s Paintings Lend New Frames to Queer, Asian Identity 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

There’s something charmingly alien about GOOP’s attitude towards everyday life, which is perhaps why it’s developed a kind of mocking anti-fandom rather than just sinking without trace like most celebrity vanity projects. The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP 2013-04-27T17:00:00Z

“It is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains,” interdimensional alien explorers explain. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

“A lot of science fiction films are about conquest. In that void, that huge universe, there’s not many things to fight, unless you do ‘Star Wars’ and there’s an alien living there. For Denis and Pattinson, a cosmic connection in ‘High Life’ 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

But on first hearing, it was so alien to me. Patti LuPone on the Verge of Another Opening 2010-10-05T10:30:00Z

He believed in space aliens and was fluent in the Bible and furious with his former wife, Adell. Art in Review: PROPHET ROYAL ROBERTSON: ?No Proud Bastards??Project Stewart Home? 2011-11-17T22:18:26Z

Do you agree that the first 2 series of Red Dwarf were the best, as they were more about the nature of the universe rather than aliens and ting? Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z

Free improvisation has often been associated with an acoustic jazz palette, but Supersilent — a deeply serious band formed almost 20 years ago in Oslo — makes music of synthetic, often alien effect. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

"Bring on the alien abductees – bring on a hundred of them … Wrongness is a human right." The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review 2013-02-13T07:00:02Z

Cruise would play a soldier whose job it is to repair drones that kill off savage alien visitors to the surface. Tom Cruise on course for Oblivion 2011-04-13T09:26:12Z

“Yeah, I beat up Paul Newman and alienated every woman in America,” Mr. Kennedy later quipped. George Kennedy, Oscar-winning character actor of ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

What Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and World's End do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Q&A: Edgar Wright 2013-07-18T07:40:01Z

Pearl — who is a "Gem," essentially meaning that she is an alien being that exists as a magical gemstone projecting into a holographic body — flips through a textbook in disbelief. In viral anti-racism PSA, "Steven Universe" character Pearl challenges our whitewashed history 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

"But when I was first trying to find one, I went through some duds who just made me feel alienated, and made me feel worse, honestly." “Tuca & Bertie” creator discusses codependent friendships and teases a "disaster" of a finale 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z

“The Day the Earth Stood Still” imagines the first contact between humans and aliens, who look surprisingly like humans, but in more anonymous form. A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

In the two episodes I screened, there’s an alien gag that overstays its welcome and a still-too-soon Philip Seymour Hoffman joke. Fox’s ‘Bordertown’ is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

In rendering them in bleak black and white the cropper also isolated them, reducing a conversation piece to two alienated individuals. MI5's uselessly dehumanised crop of the 7/7 bombers picture 2011-02-22T16:14:44Z

This adventurous side of Johansson was most apparent in 2013, when she took the part of the alien in Under the Skin. Scarlett Johansson, charismatic queen of science fiction 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The opportunity for dinos to destroy the world, a la aliens in "Independence Day," is high, but the film doesn't take near enough advantage of this. "Jurassic World: Dominion” is not a movie. It's a museum 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Science fiction, he said, “makes tackling challenging ideas a lot more fun. You can get into the allegorical, plus you can have cool stuff like robots and aliens.” The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Making aliens central to the campaign will probably result in more ticket sales at Thai cinemas but a less impactful experience for filmgoers. Don't look now: why movie posters are the biggest spoilers around 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a measure of how alienated we are from our own centers of power, and of how lied to we feel, that we need these particular fictions, that badly, right now. The Year in Novels So Far; Plus, Hilary Mantel! 2012-05-16T15:37:58Z

All of them Villareal programmed by hand to blink and morph in abstract patterns that ranged from jarringly alien to downright soothing. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z

The first question any sci-fi story about alien contact raises is: What do they want from us? Review: ‘People of Earth’ Returns for Affectingly Close Encounters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

He also contributed character designs for films, including creatures, aliens and ghouls for “The Mist,” “Galaxy Quest” and the original “Ghostbusters.” Bernie Wrightson, Artist and a Creator of Swamp Thing, Dies at 68 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Classmates discover an alien who is stranded on Earth in "Earth to Echo." Summer movies ofter action and adventure options for kids

On Friday, audiences will be streaming in droves to see , a superhero roundup filled with aliens, Norse gods and giant green rage monsters. Today's Movie Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises 2012-05-01T14:21:35Z

The stories told of the title character’s encounters with aliens and battles with intelligent monsters, but they sometimes also contained pointed political criticism. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Based on the admittedly flimsy evidence of films like “The Darkest Hour,” the best defense against invading aliens is to be as attractive as possible. Movie Review: ?The Darkest Hour,? Directed by Chris Gorak - Review 2011-12-26T20:57:42Z

She takes off her hazmat suit and elicits the alien language in writing. Watching “Arrival” After the Election 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The latest thematic issue takes up alien possession: Is your neighbor really human? Review | Beyond George R.R. Martin: A critic’s pick of science fiction and fantasy 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Your aliens look familiar, with their big round eyes and long fingers. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z

Toys still befuddle the alien botanist; candy delights. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

The "Storm Area 51" Facebook event, which started as a joke, went viral in July as people pledged to crash the secret military base in an attempt to "see them aliens." 'Storm Area 51' too much for you? Try these other alien hotspots around the world 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

He reckons that the “alien abductions” he’s spent his life investigating were actually undertaken by men posing as aliens and testing alien DNA on humans. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Premiere: A Crazier Mulder Than Usual 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Science Museum of Virginia searches for alien life in “Alien Worlds and Androids,” opening Oct. Buoyed by Renwick’s reopening, area museums prepare for fall 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

No cellist more consciously highlights the modern sounds in Bach’s writing, lingering over overtones, fracturing dance rhythms until they are alien, or playing with a jazzlike freedom. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

When people respond to campus activists who feel alienated on their campuses with, basically, some version of “suck it up” — is that an example of the value gap?  “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The alien, like death, keeps coming until it gets you. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Looks like the action in Star Trek Beyond also heads back to Starfleet Academy, and if you go through real slow you’ll see other aliens sprinkled throughout. Star Trek Beyond: 10 things we learned from the trailer 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

L.A. is awash in art and music and opera this week — featuring Chinese dissidents, roving aliens and feral little girls. Essential Art & Culture: The L.A. Phil at 100, Plácido's L.A. decades, getting funny with Shakespeare 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

At times, aliens observe and analyze, as if they too must catalogue, if not understand, a doomed planet. Best new poetry for February 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Matthew McConaughey signs up to save the world, not from aliens or terrorists, but – because this is a Christopher Nolan film – from ourselves. The films to watch in autumn 2014: from Gone Girl to Mr Turner 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Singing along, duet-style, with a falsetto, vocoder-rendered version of himself, Martin gently coos, "when you love me, love me, love me" to some space alien other, and all is right with the world. Coldplay has lost its way 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

It explores a futuristic universe where gifted young children are taken to military school early in order to train for warfare against alien invasions on their planet. 'Hunger Games' ushers in era of dystopian young adult films 2013-07-22T01:05:40Z

Grace, born in Plain City, Iowa, is alienated from her Chinese heritage and has run away from home to escape her violent father. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s

Stark has the identity issues and daddy problems that come with the superhero territory, but self-pity is as alien to him as false modesty. Movie Review: Superhero Sequel With Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke 2010-05-06T19:33:00Z

“His audience is mainly a white audience and the Negro actor has, for a long time, been asked to entertain this more or less alien group.” How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

There is a persistent, alienated sense that all is not well beneath the comfortable exteriors, which can shade into a portentous cynicism. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z

Shows like “The X-Files” and Fox’s “alien autopsy” hoax were prime-time events, while MIT even hosted an academic conference on the abduction phenomenon. Aliens in the 21st century: More and more people are starting to believe in UFOs again 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mendez grounds her character’s social symbolism in a genuine, instinctive compassion that explains Rose’s attraction to and for an anxious young Marine about to depart for an alien land. Theater Review: ‘Dogfight’ at Second Stage Theater 2012-07-17T02:00:00Z

To arrive in a country where you're seen as an alien? The Arrival – review 2013-03-22T18:31:58Z

They're about as ready to down lager as they are to put a bar stool through a marauding alien's head. The World's End - first look review 2013-07-09T09:15:40Z

Apparently 1989's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was a misnomer, because 19 years later the swashbuckling archaeologist played by Harrison Ford returned to battle Cold War villains and chase alien artifacts. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' and other sequels that took their sweet time 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

"I dreamed that I went into a shop and someone demo'd me a synth that had a pre-set of an alien invasion – and that was the sound I used on the film." From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

But when it was finished in 1926, it was downright alien. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Starring David Bowie as an alien with phenomenal powers who arrives on earth, this attracted a divided response. Nicolas Roeg obituary 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Baker’s broad-brush portrait of such musicians as alienated, downtrodden, joyless automatons, however it may apply to his assessment of El Sistema, was simply not one I recognized. ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

It is at once a society to which we can easily relate, and one that feels very alien. A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010-07-06T13:13:00Z

She gains superpowers after her genes are fused with that of the alien race, the Kree. Marvel announces new wave of superhero movies 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

In it, a gentle, apprehensive alien secretly arrives on Earth, where he passes for human and assumes the name Thomas Jerome Newton. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

“I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens.” Are You There, God? It’s Me, Katy Perry 2014-01-22T17:08:52Z

Basin and Range wasn’t on it, so I set out to find a towering silver alien in front of a Quonset hut on Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway, so named because of nearby Area 51. At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

His lover has died and he is alienated from his conventional suburban neighbours. Quiz: Bad days in literature 2010-05-07T14:20:00Z

When it was finally my turn, I entered the Integratron alongside my fellow sound bathers — hipsters, Mormons, surfers, aliens, a pro basketball player — and lay down on my mat, ears turned heavenward. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

In "Captive State," most Americans have surrendered to the alien invaders. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Between these two alienated men, Boyle places a woman named Sara, who makes a living shoeing hoofed farm animals, some of which may be more sophisticated than she is. T.C. Boyle’s new novel takes us to America’s far-right edge 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Voyager was an admirable attempt to return to the original themes of discovery and contact with strange alien races. Six to watch: Star Trek episodes 2013-05-09T15:16:48Z

In it Matt Del Rosario is joined by two X-shaped robots — they dart about the stage like alien wasps — prettified by bright, sometimes flashing, lights. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z

Brian Wilson has been an outsider all his life, often alienated from his own group, the Beach Boys. Readers recommend: songs about visitors ? results 2011-08-25T13:46:52Z

Bloodline reveals the one-time Rebel Alliance leader has been given the title of “The Huttslayer” for her heroism in killing the slug-like alien gangster. Star Wars book to resolve Princess Leia's accent, father and 'slave' bikini issues 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

“Reginald” is based on books by Johnny B. Truant known as the Fat Vampire novels, and its hero is doubly alienated: from humans, and from his sleek fellow vampires. On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

And, of course, the family’s displacement into this alien Italian culture is the background for Cecilia’s more particular displacement. Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Describing his childhood, he’s often as funny and alienated as a J. D. Salinger creation. Books of The Times: ?The Last Holiday: A Memoir? by Gil Scott-Heron - Review 2012-01-09T23:31:50Z

No rapper seemed confused by Truckasauras' music, but all were on alien turf compared to their regular output. Concert review: Truckasauras' "Kevin Collabo" at Neumos 08/06/10 2010-08-07T20:16:00Z

And the visual effects are competent, particularly in the computer graphics-illustrated Covenant home world filled with alien creatures that either look like large sea bugs or crosses between bipeds and giraffes. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

At night, they drank and laughed and shared ideas about the government and aliens and coverups and conspiracies. At the Area 51 ‘raid,’ the real alien invaders were the friends they made along the way 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

It was as if we had landed on an alien planet. Two hikers blaze their own trail at Utah’s Arches National Park 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The girls are terribly young, thrust into an alien culture that at times genuinely frightens them. TV review: Engineering Giants; Thelma's Gypsy Girls 2012-07-15T21:00:01Z

The Cable Act of 1922 again allowed for American women who married “aliens ineligible to citizenship” to lose their citizenship. Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

But after his father's death, the teenager found himself "bored, alienated, resentful and entrapped", playing truant from Rugby's Dunsmore school. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

That culture was certainly alien to Mr. Font’s father, who ran a transport agency in Barcelona and discouraged his son from becoming a designer at the time. 2010-01-05T06:10:00Z

You said maybe the aliens are the villains. Producer of ‘Bourne’ series turns his hand to a low-budget, psychological thriller. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

You play as Davis Russell, a tough-talking cop with a heart of gold, compelled to wage war alongside his Latino buddy against an alien army in a quest to track down his missing daughter. Game on: Inversion – preview 2012-07-05T21:01:01Z

It reflects its era’s preoccupation, at once playful and earnest, with finding authenticity in an alienated, media-saturated world. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

For example, he uses the blockbuster horror film “The Exorcist” to note that “our actual little girls, our perfect symbols of innocence, had become alien and frightening.” ‘The Invisible Bridge,’ by Rick Perlstein 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

For Nick’s mother, it’s a fortress built to repel alien invaders like Rachel, who, in Eleanor’s eyes, is a Chinese-American adventuress and insufficiently Chinese. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Review: Conspicuously Consuming Fun 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

While some characters in Guardians of the Galaxy, like Groot and Rocket, were rendered with computer graphics, the majority of the movie’s aliens were transformed by makeup. See Guardians of the Galaxy's Most Amazing Makeup Transformations 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The only Irish citizen ever deported from his country, Gralton was labeled an illegal alien without benefit of trial. 'Jimmy's Hall' is a subdued story of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Parenthood abruptly catapults into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity,” he writes. Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z

This would have prompted a wave of trucking movies that shifted skiploads of toy cars, and a Spielberg space franchise full of benign aliens with no Dark Side. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

As in Independence Day, there is some comedy value in punching a gloopy alien right on the jaw. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-18T14:00:01Z

If you could survive the relentless sun beating down, you had no need to panic over a menacing heat ray from invading aliens. Noon to Midnight, L.A. Phil delivers new music (and free ice cream) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t just about manifesting Internet memes or freeing “them aliens.” At the Area 51 ‘raid,’ the real alien invaders were the friends they made along the way 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The thought processes of such a machine, he argues, would be as alien to humans as human thought processes are to cockroaches. Clever cogs 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A breakthrough: The heroically cogitating, exquisitely sensitive, cruelly alienated solitary male consciousness is finally getting his due! Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Her intricate renderings of abandoned interior spaces; massive opalescent soap bubbles resembling alien planets; and even the occasional pegasus have been exhibited at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York and Soft Opening in London. Her Hyper-Realistic Art Is a Parallel Universe 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

The alien issue was really heating up in 1996, what with the summer blockbuster “Independence Day,” and Bassett worried someone else would get the same idea. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

In Ivan Reitman’s hit-or-miss alien invasion comedy “Evolution,” Harry Block, a college professor played Orlando Jones, refuses to come to the rescue. Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired trope 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The show, which follows a group of secret agents battling human and alien enemies, began life on BBC Three in 2006. US Torchwood remake on hold 2010-04-22T14:56:00Z

Her essay, “Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life,” explored how contemporary culture — capitalism and the patriarchy, mostly — alienated women from themselves. Meredith Tax, Feminist Author, Historian and Activist, Dies at 80 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Even the most alienated of these writers still seem alienated with, rather than from, their fellow citizens. Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets – review 2013-02-08T17:42:01Z

Those movies include “Shanghai Fortress,” about an alien attack on Earth, and “Pathfinder,” about a spaceship that crashes on a desert planet. China’s Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Harry is attracted to other aliens, specifically "blue aliens, which are very beautiful, if you are attracted to bird faces — which of course I am." The surprisingly sex positive "Resident Alien" 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

If you’re too out of the box it feels fantastic and unbelievable that this would be what an alien looks like. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z

How can one franchise spawn so many aliens—and so many memorable ones, at that? Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

He eventually alienated both the communists and psychoanalysts, who were already deeply suspicious of each other. Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich – review 2013-05-01T07:00:02Z

The aliens and brigands still look like summer-stock extras, and the cannon fodder among the junior officers can still be discerned a mile off. Catching Up With ‘Star Trek,’ the Quiet Franchise 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Despite assimilation by the Borg and other unsavory encounters with aliens and humans alike, Picard was a steadfast and moral figure, driven by duty but often alone, as he is the last of the Picards. "Star Trek: Picard" teaser trailer gives first look at Patrick Stewart — Watch 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

It's about a kid: he's not an alien, he's not a billionaire, he's just a kid who has trouble talking to girls and has to do chores. The Amazing Spider-Man returns 2012-06-30T08:05:02Z

Since then, in March, Six Flags Over Texas opened North America’s first VR coaster, the New Revolution, in which the rider seems to be flying a jet fighter, defending the planet from aliens. Virtual reality is revolutionizing the roller coaster experience 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Among those inspired by Spielberg’s blockbuster about a stranded alien was future Olympic track cycling champion Chris Hoy. At Tokyo Olympics, a debt to ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘E.T.’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

I personally had some sort of mushroom, alien nation haircut. Stone Roses' film world premiere 2012-10-12T15:43:59Z

Not only that, but now that I’m alienated, I’m going to say no to everything that ordinary people like, even if I secretly like it myself.” The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

Now it's the humans who are the bad guys; the aliens, though absent tonight, are now possibly not as evil as suspected. Falling Skies: episode seven 2011-08-16T21:01:01Z

We want the neighbors to shut up, or at least for some benevolent aliens to beam them away and leave us to get a good night’s sleep. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want them to seem entirely alien, even if they are awesome and bizarre in other ways,” Carrano said. T. rex finds a dangerous meal as Smithsonian dinosaur hall reopens 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

As a self-concocted alien, he was drawn to other people’s otherness. How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

In 1963, he was barred from entering London after arriving at the airport and referred to as an “undesirable alien,” according to news reports and historians. Lenny Bruce Is Still Talking Dirty and Influencing People 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

In each case he builds up the species from scratch, procedurally: the aliens’ environment shapes their biology, and their biology shapes their psychology. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z

“The thing about grief is, it throws you into a completely alien landscape,” she says. On millennial grief: ‘I didn’t want to be brave. I just wanted my mum back’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

It's like no place on Earth; the flatness, the humidity, the weird alien moss hanging in the swamps. Behind the scenes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012-10-05T14:45:40Z

It's a long way from growing up, feeling slightly alien, in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah. Sinkane's Ahmed Gallab: 'I like being on the move' 2012-12-14T15:00:00Z

On his 1969 debut album, “U.F.O.,” he sang of beckoning highways, of aliens, of an Arizona ghost town, of a man who looked “so natural” in death it was clearly his time to go. Jim Sullivan, a Rock ’n’ Roll Mystery That Remains Stubbornly Unsolved 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

At first he appears merely aloof and alienated; after marrying Dorothea, he reveals a more venomous side. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z

He also played his character’s alien double, who in part helps to explain what exactly the aliens’ goals are in the film. How to Watch Leonard Nimoy's Most Memorable Performances Online 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

There's something about a book set in the future that makes them think of aliens, space ships, and pasty teenagers living in their parents' basements... Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

Burt is like the aliens: his life is sped up, too. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

The X-Files movie “I Want to Believe” that came out several years later merely proved that aliens must suffer more red tape than the IRS, because they still hadn’t gotten their action plan together. The truth is still out there: 5 mysteries we hope the “X-Files” reboot will resolve 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable landed in California in the spring of 1966, advertising “light shows & curious movies” and looking, for all the world, like an alien invasion. The Velvet Underground in California 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Schoolmates who once ignored or taunted him now see him as special, and as his new identity attracts the hungry eye of social media, he becomes alienated from Heidi, his overworked mother. Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ With a Real Teenage Evan 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

I often recommend they hire a great entertainment attorney so it doesn’t feel like they’re dealing with alien culture. ?Marmaduke? Producer Is a Friend to Comic Animals 2010-05-28T22:31:00Z

In politics, hip-hop not only brought millions of otherwise alienated young people into the electoral process, but it was also instrumental in putting a black man into the White House. Russell Simmons: For Black Comedians, It’s ‘Hollywood So White’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

DeGeneres even went so far as to note that the show has at times alienated staffers and even guests by shifting shooting timetables on short notice. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ousts three top producers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The league's response has alienated football's female fan base and, perhaps more pressing, advertisers who spend millions on TV spots during the Super Bowl. Katy Perry to play Super Bowl halftime show? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

In the video for “Sock It 2 Me,” Elliott and Da Brat are marooned on an alien planet and find their way onto a chrome spaceship. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

But soon insectoid aliens control the world, and humans are conscripted as a drone work force, with worse fates promised. 10 More Plays Where the Future Forecast Is Grim 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

It's sort of how Morrison's fans want him to behave – and, with its copious hallucinogenic drugs, magic symbols and alien encounters, the Talking With Gods documentary didn't disappoint. Grant Morrison, The Invisibles and the comics that put novels in the shade 2010-12-19T22:30:01Z

Weston: I’m quite a sci-fi nerd, so I might like to be some sort of odd alien. Dating is tough. Could dressing up as a praying mantis help? 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Surely because by doing so, the author can envelop a putatively alien West African war story in a familiar American setting. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

With metal discs and four elaborate rosettes on its back, it looks like a computer console from an alien civilization. At Salon Art + Design, Gold Bracelets and Lipstick-Red Monochromes 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z

The chef, famous for his show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” posted an image to his Instagram account of the alien infant altered to look like it was dressed up as Fieri. Guy Fieri unveils 'Baby Yoda' mashup 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

I began to feel alienated from the band and they felt left out. Mick Hucknall: 'I feel a bit like the antichrist' 2010-12-02T21:30:00Z

Social distancing has quarantined us in our homes, increasingly alienated and lonely, eyeing strangers a little more warily. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Separationism, FitzGerald writes, “inspired conspiracy theories of the vilest sort, but it also fostered group solidarity and attracted Bible-believing Protestants alienated in the strange new world of global depression and global war.” With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

I remember not being able to breathe and crying while they felt my perfectly flat chest, their slimy hot tongues pushing into my mouth, alien and gross. 'The ways we are taught to be a girl': a writer reckons with childhood sexual assaults 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

So were those aliens in the last scene or the one of those replica crafts we saw in the first episode? Chris Carter Expects More ‘X-Files,’ Definitely Reads Reviews 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

And yet today, despite being hailed for its health benefits, it can still feel a little alien in the kitchen. Sea spaghetti in the supermarket: the unstoppable rise of seaweed 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

It examined how to be a father when you're also a scientist, how to be human when you're also very alien, how to be a parent when you're also a child. In the end, `Fringe' was all about identity 2013-01-17T17:16:04Z

Similarly, "Captain Marvel" also had shapeshifting aliens, although the Skrull in "Captain Marvel" were better developed because they felt like individuals rather than generic villains, and their storyline included a clever twist. "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

I still felt we were aliens in that community, but we were accepted. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

The very movement that carried his own work forward into history and bore him on its shoulders as a hero, and that his most controversial work decisively inspired, was alien to his sensibility. Ingrid Bergman’s Great Sacrifice for Cinematic Art 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

I've not heard anything quite like it – it sounds 'live' and 'alien' at the same time. Brian Eno gets the Warp factor 2010-08-03T09:27:00Z

He hosted “Jeopardy!” like an alien from another television universe. What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

"All You Need Is Kill" is another Cruise-against-creatures tale, about a soldier caught in a time loop in which he relives his death over and over in a battle with aliens. Cruise goes back to what he does best in 'Reacher' 2012-12-21T16:19:08Z

Shockingly, the voice also revealed that aliens are on their way to revisit humanity. 'The royal wedding of the century' ? the novel 2011-03-18T14:28:59Z

Room after room was stocked with swords, canoes, musical instruments, 3D-printed model castles and alien fiends in various states of repair. ‘The Dark Crystal’ Returns on an Even Grander Scale 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The soliloquy of the alienated worker is followed by the film's one reach toward a dreamworld, what we could call the originary fantasy that begets the bifurcated world of Thomas Anderson and Neo: "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Gradually we learned more about the other alien Green Lanterns, and the little blue immortals in the red dresses who ran the show, the Guardians of Oa. Comics: Let's shed a little light on Green Lantern's backstory 2011-06-16T19:19:04Z

Instead of treating my racial peers as sources of solidarity, I felt alienated from them. I hated not being white: The lies I told just to fit in haunt me still 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

“In that void, that huge universe, there’s not many things to fight, unless you do ‘Star Wars’ and there’s an alien living there.” The moon landing was a giant leap for movies, too 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Bay says he thinks of this film as a sort of homeland version of ”Black Hawk Down” — but, you know, with giant alien robots. Michael Bay ready to make you forget 'Transformers 2' 2011-01-14T22:14:24Z

The somewhat prosaic conclusion is that moderation is key – whether you're killing aliens, racing cars or trying to place oddly shaped blocks that fall from the sky. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z

Of his father Bertolf, a tile installer, Matheson recalled: “Refuge from this alien world was sought in alcohol which served to blunt the nerve ends and numb away the fears and anxieties.” Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z

The part Jewish artist managed to escape to England from Nazi Germany only to be deported with hundreds of other Germans designated "enemy aliens" to a camp in New South Wales. Australian season set to bloom at British Museum 2011-01-26T15:09:24Z

Much has been written about the way his fiction expanded our imaginative worlds, to alien planets and future realms. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z

As a punk/alternative kid, noise was what originally pulled me into Sun Ra’s orbit, his use of terrestrial instrumentation to conjure sounds both astral and alien. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

In one room are feathered costumes and alien paintings produced by the Unarius Academy of Science, the 6-decade-old El Cajon spiritual group that believes in reincarnation and the channeling of knowledge from alien beings. Aliens, abstraction and Thomas Kinkade: An L.A. exhibition summons the spiritual and the fantastical 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Before we left, I was at a particularly low point — feeling alienated and broken by the destructive and seemingly relentless attacks and fights in my professional world — and in the world more broadly. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

She was in this big spooky house, with a camera, and there were evil statues that were really aliens. Carey Mulligan 2010-04-26T19:00:00Z

Ultimately, the trick will be staying true enough to the original films while introducing us to a whole new cast of heroes, villains, aliens, droids and ships. Why I'm Giving Into My Feelings This 'Star Wars' Day 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Magical thinking is not wholly alien to American politics. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

This stuff isn’t alien to man and nature; it’s graceful and body centered, and now a lot more so than before. Music Review: Loud and Middle-Aged, But It?s Not a Reunion 2010-10-11T21:15:00Z

If the alien introduction is more cryptic than we expect, the subplot playing out back on land is more inspiring. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z

She’s had what amounts to a wasted year—a year in which she alienated her friends, neglected herself and her family, and put too much effort into the wrong things. "The Good Wife" and the Good Life 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Adam Kimmel was on a different, all-American gig: the history of Area 51, the legendary Nevada military base legendarily linked to the CIA and to alien invasions. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z

Maybe the takeaway from last week’s ceremony is that Mr. Church is right to feel alienated from his peers. On ‘Mr. Misunderstood,’ Eric Church Pays Homage to His Influences 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The story follows Harry, an alien who crash-lands on earth and assumes the identity of a doctor in a small Colorado town. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Resident Alien’ 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

As proof of their power, the aliens turn the Statue of Liberty into solid gold and clean the polluted air over Los Angeles and Denver. Which Americans are disposable? The lessons “Space Traders,” James Baldwin and the rise of Donald Trump 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Half the joy here is the experience of life on a boat: "Just the sea around them, alien and natural, sheets of silver-blue, flat and calm for now, spread out like a vast wealth." Archipelago by Monique Roffey - review 2012-07-27T21:54:00Z

The notion of accepting responsibility is as central to the military’s ethic as it is alien to Trump’s. The Military’s Illusions About Donald Trump 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Or else it was an alien abduction scene, mildly disturbing but also calm, beautiful; “War on the Mind” by Acid King played in the background. | Helmut Lang 2012-02-11T19:25:47Z

Though her caretakers were “lovely,” she said, “I felt lonely and alienated, because I was around strangers.” Coming Soon to the Bronx, a Long Overdue Book Festival 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

But when he arrived for basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., he quickly became alienated from his fellow soldiers, and his small stature and soft-spoken demeanor didn’t do him any favors. The True Story Behind 'Hacksaw Ridge' 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Also on board are slowly incubating eggs, one of which hatches into the alien creature. H.R. Giger, artist who designed the creature in the 1979 film ‘Alien,’ dies at 74

The tragedy was only accentuated by how alien it all felt. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

It sounds like one of the aliens from Mars Attacks! riding a shopping trolley down a concrete stairwell. My son’s new fake laugh is terrible – a sea lion choking on a fishbone 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

After the fundraiser, the Grand Illusion will present four nights of "Mystery Theatre" Monday through Thursday, featuring four surprise classic films that will include "comedy, big name actors, creepy aliens, and more!" 'Casablanca,' 'The Apartment' and other film gems screen in Seattle 2010-09-23T20:21:00Z

Kurt was writing about things that were about more enduring human issues: feeling alienated, feeling disgusted with mass culture, redefining what it is to be a man. Nirvana’s manager breaks his silence on Kurt Cobain 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

The plot summary reads: “An employee at a department of the United Nations that monitors outer space inadvertently makes contact with a beautiful woman, who may be an alien.” When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Also, a popular genre is sci-fi with aliens of all shapes and sizes. So, goblin porn exists 2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

One day, alien ships appear above cities around the world, from Mumbai to Rio to New York. In our paranoid Tea Party age, the benevolent alien Overlords of “Childhood’s End” are a tough sell 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The aliens themselves, though, remain unfathomable, wanting nothing more than to eradicate us. ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Review: Pump Up the Volume 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“This is basically the Met Gala for aliens.” Bushwig Grows Up 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind of bizarre simulacrum of humanity that might have been crafted by an alien civilization. ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

This time, the issue is whether the federal government’s traditional control over immigration prevents states such as Arizona from authorizing their police to stop and arrest suspected illegal aliens. High Court to take on Ariz. immigration law 2012-04-25T10:05:00Z

The video glistens at you, with the band appearing like aliens in the mist, fresh from whatever spaceship they'd been in that day. Old music: Cocteau Twins – Crushed 2013-03-21T07:00:00Z

This would be a death sentence if it weren’t for the sentient alien Sophie befriends. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Above all, the typical X-Files tail-chasing: it was aliens all along; no, it was humans; no, it was humans working with alien technology; no, the aliens are trying to save humans from each other.... ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Finale: Our Struggle 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The result is the bulbous, swirling, alien sculptures on display today: Anvil Rock, Monkey Face, Mushroom Rock and Camel Rock, featured on the 2016 Illinois state quarter. A day’s drive from Chicago, exploring a very different Illinois 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

The new crew, she said, was “an alien group of men who had never worked under me and who suffered resentment and hurt pride at being placed under a woman’s direction.” “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

It will be able to be read by not just space aliens, but people who are unfettered by our cultural clutter, many decades hence. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Over his long, stellar career, Laurents' caustic wit and brutal candor famously alienated many of his colleagues. 'West Side Story': A classic revived 2012-01-08T04:11:44Z

Extreme as the two alienated characters are in "Taste," their manner of negotiating intimacy follows some universal patterns. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Yet Spot, currently without snout or soulful eyes, appears utterly alien and hardly a potential best pal. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

When she did, “her own handwriting looked alien to her,” Kennedy says. “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

The women in the series are statuesque in their poses but alien in their presentation. Nahmad Contemporary Shows All Nine Photographs from Richard Prince’s “Fashion” Series 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In Miller's case the worlds of media, sport and the arts seem alienated in almost equal measure. Maria Miller's last-chance saloon 2013-06-11T12:21:34Z

We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

“I’ve always sort of felt a little bit like an alien or something. Just what I like is very different, I think, than what most people like,” Coppola, 34, said. In a new film, Gia Coppola dissects ‘Mainstream’ culture 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Within the last three decades it’s also been defined as viewing or treating people who are differ from a dominant group as alien. How the media centers whiteness: "Today," Nicholas Sandmann and "the others" 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Without access to the Cook County jails, ICE's ability to accurately verify the immigration status of criminal aliens detained by Cook County becomes more difficult. Immigration officials warn Preckwinkle 2012-01-12T18:41:00Z

The alien was capable of 150 separate moves, like wrinkling his nose, furrowing his brow and extending his neck. Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z

Entering, audience members are handed headphones, whose green lights became a feature of the darkness at the edges of the performance space, like alien eyes. Review | Opera needs to change. Prototype festival shows one new path. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

She has alienated her father, a rigid-minded minister; most of her fellow officers; and the brutal warden of the prison in which Adrian was confined. ‘Redemption Road’ and the problem of thriller-killers 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Aside from the fact that a few people in the story have extraordinary abilities, there are no costumes, no aliens and no easy answers. “Jessica Jones”: Marvel’s newest show makes surviving trauma a superpower 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

There's just enough human interest to sustain it, but this is all about giant machines, giant aliens and deafening destruction. Pacific Rim, Monsters University, The Deep: this week's new films 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

Half the delight of reading it is seeing the familiar characters crop up in unfamiliar ways—“Oh, Han Solo is this large, green-gilled alien, isn’t that funny?”—but you also get lost. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The comics vary in style and tone, from absurd, silly and whimsical cartoons featuring talking animals and bored aliens, to more meta, philosophical ones about the creative process and the elusive, subjective nature of comedy. They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

They joke about calling Ghostbusters, refer to the dead alien as Gollum, Gremlin and Dobby the Elf, and hope to get money by selling the critter’s corpse to a newspaper, but not the Sun. This Week?s DVDs: Sci-fi Scares from Spielberg and Cornish 2011-10-25T21:49:36Z

One would expect the arrival of the aliens to usher in a mindless volley of lasers and torpedoes. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z

But if winter's gloom felt foreign to Torke's style, winter itself seemed an alien season on a Sunday spring afternoon in Pasadena. Catching up with Michael Torke and the Eroica Trio in Pasadena 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Katy the alien and her new albino boyfriend walk/trot off into the scorching sun of their new home planet. Interpreting the plot of Katy Perry and Kanye West's "E.T." 2011-03-31T22:32:00Z

He thrived in Chicago's target-rich environment, but as the Tribune newsroom changed, he felt alienated from its new leadership and moved from covering campaigns to orchestrating them. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Last year, Guardians of the Galaxy ended with a post credits scene showing a dancing baby tree alien and immediately collectors wanted a Baby Groot of their own to boogie on their desks. First Look At 'Jurassic World' Secret Dinosaurs Raises More Questions 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The alienated, misunderstood individuals — the white guys struggling with the burdens of power — who defined the genre in the early 2000s have for the most part been absorbed into larger affiliations. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Myriad militaristic SF books and films suggest the most interesting thing to do with the alien is style it as an invading monster and empty thousands of rounds of ammunition into it. War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? 2013-04-08T09:00:01Z

No other game developer has been so willing, and quite so able, to riff on the real world rather than sticking to elves or dragons or aliens or fantasized battlefields. Video Game Review: ?Red Dead Redemption? Brings Old West to Life 2010-05-16T19:25:00Z

This proliferation of new fans has, to a degree, alienated older readers. DC Comics hopes move to Burbank energizes superheroes 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Each park will be 14 acres and will be populated with actors playing aliens, droids and other creatures from the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Theme Parks Are Coming to Disney World and Disneyland 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

It is up to Rachel to persuade him to move forward with this case in honor of her aunt, who died alienated from her brother, and to protect future women from experiencing similar abuse. Meghan Markle Left ‘Suits.’ Here’s What She Took With Her. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

But August and her brother aren’t so much renewed as arrested in this alien, dangerous place. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he remained acutely attentive to his Jewish identity and situation as a semi-foreigner and sociocultural alien in Vienna, from the later Victorian and prewar years to his fleeing from the Nazis in 1938. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

This was the 2011 cult favourite, Attack the Block, a sci-fi comedy in which he was Moses, a south London teenager battling an alien invasion on a housing estate. John Boyega: storming from Peckham to galactic fame | Observer profile 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

"Everything he does is like an alien Googled 'How to do a normal?'" "My favorite meat": Mitt Romney goes viral in an alien-like ode to hot dogs 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

At the outset you get to create your own character from dozens of body parts and accessories - some human, some alien. RedShirt – or what happens when Facebook meets Star Trek 2013-05-01T10:01:14Z

An alien statue was wrapped in a Brazilian flag. Bushwick, Brooklyn as Next Gallery District in New York 2012-03-07T23:17:42Z

Navy fighting aliens, had production budgets over $200 million and came out with all the studio hype that precedes major movie releases. "Savages" star Kitsch hopes third film's a charm 2012-07-03T21:25:18Z

While the Internet is teeming with individual pro-placenta stories, they are as anecdotal, and in my case as absurdly off beam, as alien sightings. Motherlode Blog: I Regret Eating My Placenta 2012-03-26T01:13:25Z

Against a shadowy concrete wall, each depicts a decapitated head perched atop a gigantic gummy candy that glistens and glows, like a sci-fi alien. Christian Rex van Minnen's modern tales of male domination, painted like an old master 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

GRIFTER: Cole Cash is a smooth-talkin’ rogue who can see aliens in human form. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Batwoman,' 'Demon Knights' and More 2011-09-15T20:32:58Z

Back in Texas, however, Joplin’s whole vibe alienated people. A New Biography of Janis Joplin Captures the Pain and Soul of an Adventurous Life 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

These paintings, however, do not depict alien worlds. Moment of Friday: Hagfish hanky-panky, Lily Simonson's oceanic obsession 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Kaiju are, as alien invaders tend to be, quite hostile. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z

Do you recall what the aliens were after in the first “Independence Day” movie? We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

I wound down the hill in an alien land, Morrissey chanted lonely mantras, the pain quickly accumulated incalculably, and I began to weave the familiar tapestry that tells an old, old story. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z

One of this season's most anticipated movies takes place in a mysterious, alien world. 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky ushers a 'wereswan' onto the screen 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z

Bud Light revealed an Area 51-themed beer and promised a free drink to any aliens that escaped the base. 'Storm Area 51' turns into Alienstock Festival, may possibly include Limp Bizkit 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

But Gillian Anderson and especially David Duchovny slide back into their roles as if the intervening 14 years were just an alien time trick. Television This Winter: 20 Shows to Keep on Your Radar Screen 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

And we’re going to need to be able to talk to people who would normally feel alienated by my show. Samantha Bee and Jane Pauley Are Breaking the News 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

His composite photographic map of London portrays a city both real and unreal, recognisable but alien. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z

In “E.T.” an alien is marooned on Earth, where he befriends a lonely boy named Elliott who helps him to contact his home planet and return to space. Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z

If they meet aliens, what they have to offer from the human race’s creations are a couple of greatest-hits albums. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z

Much of this is just so much juvenile posturing, but every so often the screen freezes into something approximating beauty: a blurry, spaced-out, yellow-green landscape, as alien as an ancient photograph. | 'Trash Humpers': Harmony Korine?s Geriatric Delinquents 2010-05-07T00:19:00Z

“If you are Seahawks fans in Seattle, right now it’s pretty hard to feel lonely. It’s pretty hard to feel alienated.” Patriots fan pours beer on Tyreek Hill: Boozy, toxic sports culture needs a serious cleanse 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Sex and commerce intertwine in ways that are sometimes familiar to Western viewers and sometimes totally alien. Art In Review: JULIKA RUDELIUS: ‘Rituals of Capitalism’ 2012-08-09T20:27:20Z

It would be far more interesting to see a film about Bowie literally developing his Ziggy Stardust alter ego — the costumes, the music, the alien backstory — rather than being told to do so. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Q: . . . or simply people who don’t want to see another movie about space aliens? Her mom directed some of the best rom-coms of all time. Now she’s made one of her own. 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. O’Neill and Mr. Mills would go on to create the popular series Nemesis the Warlock, about a fire-breathing alien demon — the hero — in battle against a fanatically religious human dictator. Kevin O’Neill, Comics Artist With a Taste for the Lurid, Dies at 69 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

The summer blockbuster staked its claim on television long ago, but we've all been so fixated on zombies, werewolves and aliens, we've almost forgotten the coolest and creepiest apocalypse scenario: Animals Run Amok. It's all great fun as animals run amok in CBS' 'Zoo' 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

He also revealed that Captain Marvel will be battling a group of aliens called the Skrulls. The Shape-Shifting Bad Guys in Captain Marvel Could Masquerade as Anyone 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

A little alien baby is delivered to another woman, and the biggest conspiracy of the week involves switched ultrasounds. 10-year time capsule: When "The X-Files" changed TV fandom 2011-02-16T21:24:00Z

But his father didn’t want an alienated son with a victim mentality, Mr. Takei said; he wanted a child who was engaged in shaping American democracy. George Takei Guides ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical, Not a Starship 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

There’s little irony in it, just straight-up classical lyrical brilliance powerful enough to draw you into an alien mind and time. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z

In the Netflix series, she plays a mother living in a small Indiana town whose son goes missing, just as an alien and a gifted child each escape from a secret government facility. 90s Icon Winona Ryder Is Making Her Comeback 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

They started out a bit more lean and sinewy, more alien. Making the Monsters of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

“For my generation of European film nerds, he was pretty much the first who showed us America through the eyes of an American alien,” said Ms. Swinton, who has made three films with him. This Time, Jim Jarmusch Is Kissing Vampires 2014-04-03T16:00:01Z

In fact, it's kind of ambiguous who or what the aliens are in this little vignette by Floria Sigismondi, who also directed "The Runaways." Interpreting the plot of Katy Perry and Kanye West's "E.T." 2011-03-31T22:32:00Z

The next day, a military official shows up in her office with a recording of alien language. Watching “Arrival” After the Election 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

"Contagion" deals with a global pandemic, "Independence Day" has us tangling with laser-slinging aliens, "The Day After Tomorrow" sticks us in the deep-freeze of climate change, and "Deep Impact" sends comets rocketing our way. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

She opens the album with “UFO,” which merges folky strumming with Vocoder-processed vocal harmonies, as Dean plays an alien: “I need somewhere to land/I might as well fall into your earthly hands.” On Her Debut Album, Olivia Dean Is Already Pushing Ahead 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s only later, after returning to the office, that he’s fired, his words having seriously alienated his boss. The Towering Narcissism of Jerry Maguire 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

Dressed in tutus and combat boots with their faces painted white, the Daughters stalked the stage like conquerors taking possession of an alien territory. At GlobalFest, a World of Music, Costumes and Messages 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

People drift into a circle of six towering screens, wearing high-tech 3-D holographic visors, like moon-walkers taking their first steps in an alien atmosphere. Brian Eno Wants to Take You ‘Inside the Music’ 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Lots and lots of questions: Is there air coming out of the aliens’ “mouths,” or is it going in? It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Sathian, who inhabits Neil’s despair so sympathetically, uses his alienated perspective to capture the plight of “conceptual orphans” launched into the United States by eager immigrant parents. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

A striking work of speculative fiction, it depicts – in terms sometimes hopeful and other times cautionary – a future of alien contact, interplanetary travel, conscious machines and even the next great evolutionary leap of humankind. “2001: A Space Odyssey” still has insight on future decades later 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

There are also some shrewd and witty touches, and one terrifically creepy performance from , who steals the film with the chilling, parasitic relentlessness of that first gut-bound alien. Prometheus 2012-05-30T14:12:53Z

Why would aliens have a gender binary in the first place? ‘Zombies 3’ Review: Take Me to Your Cheerleader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Immersed in the suffering of his flock—the aliens also have hard lives—he can barely comprehend the vaster suffering back home. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Why would alien cultures balk at words connected with sex and scatology? Bleep me up Scotty: why is sci-fi suddenly so sweary? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

He's called his subjects – which are often found in the western half of the USA, and rarely in the vicinity of big cities – "utterly alien to the reviewing media". Overlooked classics: Dalva by Jim Harrison 2012-05-17T11:33:44Z

I am so sunk in the work’s psychology, I feel almost an alien, some renewing life form. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

They are sophisticates in a slum, alienated from their families and frustrated by the feckless men in their lives. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And one of the unpalatable truths is because a huge population of white, working-class folks feel alienated from their own country and their own reference points. Billy Bragg sings about English identity in play 2010-04-26T18:56:00Z

“People who believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations are not a marginal minority,” he said. Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

In this version, the Aviator of the Saint-Exupéry book, now old, meets an overscheduled young girl and tells her his stories of the alien little prince. New York International Children’s Film Festival Gives Young Heroes Their Stage 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, however, there were indications that the troubling visitants might themselves be aliens. Men in Black 3's suits: the latest spin on well-laundered folklore 2012-05-28T11:28:12Z

There are no aliens in "Life in a Day", although there are a few goat herders who might pass for modern-day cowboys. No aliens, no superheroes, just "Life in a Day" 2011-07-29T22:35:30Z

“Conversely, American society is pretty segregated, but the myth it exports is of a racial melting-pot, everyone solving crimes and fighting aliens side by side.” The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

According to the academy, Ms. Dugan was dismissed because she alienated the staff and exhibited bullying behavior toward an executive assistant assigned to her. Grammy Officials Oppose an Open Hearing on Reasons for Ousting C.E.O. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

The third boy has been abducted, and aliens have seared his spine to a “harness,” a many-tentacled metallic slug that appears to lull kids into a supplicant army. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z

We were illegal aliens, actually, on tourist visas. | Christo on Jeanne-Claude, the Art of the Process and Trying to Drape a River in Fabric 2014-04-23T22:43:44Z

To me, a seemingly endless exegesis of “Frederick Seidel’s Bad Taste” felt like alienated labor. Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

And, if you don’t like any of those things, there’s also a piece about aliens you might relate to. Not-to-Be-Missed Shouts of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Although the aliens Mr. O’Neill depicted were demonic, contorted and grotesque, the objection was not to any particular image, but to his entire style. Kevin O’Neill, Comics Artist With a Taste for the Lurid, Dies at 69 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

David Bowie was the perfect alien loner — but he deserved a better film around him. What our writers love this week 2011-08-31T20:55:03Z

There is talk of deportations and alien civilizations, of one side's terrorists being another side's freedom fighters, of resource exploitation as a motive for imperialism, but these themes are never developed. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“The Sopranos” amused viewers with unexpected glimpses of bourgeois ordinariness — lawn mowing, school meetings, psychotherapy — inside the scary, alien world of organized crime. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z

Duty and sacrifice are such alien concepts in 21st-century public life that the bleak, irrevocable end to the affair sends a powerful message about what it meant to be royal in the 20th. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Star Wars” had a magical energy field called the Force, sentient droids, bizarre aliens, faster than light travel, lightsabers, and moon-sized battle stations that could destroy a planet with one blast of its laser. Our new post-Obama “Star Wars”: Race, the Force and the dark side in modern America 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

The Clangers, the knitted, whistling alien creatures that engrossed children at the end of the 1960s and start of the '70s, are to make a comeback in a new series next year. BBC children's TV exhibition unveiled 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

He was also Khan, the genetically engineered alien, in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” in which his sepulchral voice and careful, rapid enunciation were themselves indication of unnatural villainy. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Within this rhetorical framework, it is not necessary to prove that aliens have been discovered on Earth or that Ukrainians blew up a Ukrainian dam. The Paranoid Style in Tucker Carlson’s Home Office 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

"I felt really alienated from that person, so it was about this old man looking at this young person and examining him with ruthless clarity but also finding some sympathy for that person." Daniel Clowes is looking for a role model in comics (sort of) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Goldman dispatched Austin on missions to take on mad scientists, spies, aliens, technologically controlled sharks and a robotic Sasquatch. Richard Anderson, of ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ and ‘Bionic Woman,’ Dies at 91 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

A geneticist and a mathematician dive deep into doomsday cults, alien life-forms, the origins of time and much more in this collection of writings on scientific myths and curiosities. Newly Published, From Art Criminals to Sentient Fungi 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

But when you hear the work here, people realize it’s not alien — their grandmothers spoke like that.” Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z

Photograph: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP Bourgeois's evisceration and revelation of the body's inner secrets culminate in this work: an inside-out sculpture that takes us into an alien reality of seething flesh. The best of Louise Bourgeois 2010-06-01T14:06:00Z

In the film, the famously cantankerous Mr. Crosby talks about how he had alienated nearly all of his old musical associates, even his longtime ally Mr. Nash. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

With his ethereal voice, Pears portrayed the fisherman as an alienated dreamer, a misfit in a narrow-minded town. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

This Korean film starts in the 14th century with an alien creature trying to escape from the human body inside which it has been imprisoned. ‘Alienoid’ Review: Sorcerers, Alien Prisoners and Much, Much More 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

A full 35% of people believe that the Terminator films were right about the future of robotics, and another 35% would be prepared to fight an alien invasion. Apes, vampires or giant crabs: which movie apocalypse would you prefer? 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” The 5th Wave could be an apology for colonialism – but it's not 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

He fixes the drones that patrol the surface looking to destroy what's left of the Scavengers, a savage alien race. Oblivion trailer adds to the intrigue 2013-01-25T11:11:03Z

Most of Battle Los Angeles shows a small unit of Marines trying to escape, outmaneuver and thousands of alien soldiers, whose weapons, oddly, are very similar to those of the earthlings. Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess 2011-03-11T11:05:00Z

He’s even an alien to himself, wrestling in exasperation with his own body, which registers emotions as physical pain, and the Armani-style duds he always wears. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

I first saw him channel back in 1997, for a programme about aliens. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Those unaware that the broadcast was a work of fiction fell for Wells’s story of an alien invasion. Review: In ‘Brave New Jersey,’ a Martian Invasion That Wasn’t 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

“They sound like alien space lords. Then look at supplements with names like Nature’s Way.” Perspective | Most dietary supplements don’t do anything. Why do we spend $35 billion a year on them? 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Contrasting Romantic-era songs that exalt nature and contemporary works that feel alienated from it, she charted an unfortunate decline in humanity’s relationship with the environment through music. Review: Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Eden’ Takes Root at Carnegie Hall 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

It’s just fun to watch guys shooting machine guns at aliens.” Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z

It also does a sly job of teasing Fisher’s new look as Leia and Simon Pegg’s mysterious involvement as a rumoured alien in the movie, without actually showing the actors in action. Comic-Con: Why the Force was with Star Wars and not Batman v Superman 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

We have also seen a certain element of the leftwing seek to blame itself for having alienated ordinary folk. How cinema failed diversity in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

In his quizzical alien, he created something bigger than himself, a figure of friendship, mindfulness and understanding that, long after Leonard Nimoy is gone, will keep spreading ripples across the universe. He Was the Cosmos: How Leonard Nimoy Made Spock a Mystical Force 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Their relationship is funny and compassionate and complicated in a way alien to anyone who isn’t French. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

The message to the audience: Abandon all laws of physics and probability, and surrender to the gorgeously alien planet of Cirque. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z

As a filmmaker," she wondered, "how do you get past that kind of alienated, alienating, kind of humiliation footage and connect it to a person? An interview with the director of 'The Oath,' about Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard 2010-06-14T22:49:00Z

In other words, unlike say, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, who we loved but who were utterly alien to us, it was British. We were all “Young Guns” then: George Michael and the early days of Wham!, the coolest band in London 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

In this outlandish comedy-horror hybrid, clownlike aliens infiltrate a small town with plans to terrorize humanity. When Reality Is Scary Enough, These Movies Are Safe Nightmares 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

And this, in turn, has left some of his peers nonplused — grumbling at what they see as a flimsy theory or bewildered as to why Harvard’s top astronomer won’t shut up about aliens. Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he doesn’t care what his colleagues think 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

My own personal life is too strange, alien – and in the eyes of many of them – deeply sinful for anything I might say about sexual ethics or Christianity to be relevant to other people's concerns. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z

Desperate to lure big crowds back to movie houses, Hollywood dispatched two of its favorite species of box-office commandos: aliens and werewolves. Box Office: Battle L.A. Explodes; Mars Needs Bombs 2011-03-13T05:50:00Z

By 2011, the concept of fame was radically different, and less alien to the common fan, than it was, say, during Marilyn Monroe's era. 'How did we let this happen?' The Amy Winehouse question and social science's take on modern fame 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

“It just felt like the people who were making those things were, like, aliens, or gods,” he said. Is the New Mr. Right an Immigrant Rom-Com Hero? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The characters in monster and alien movies are often whittled down to one or two feelings. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Topics: , London Olympics, , , If aliens were to intercept media coverage of the upcoming Olympic games, they could easily get the impression that it’s a competition not in gymnastics, swimming, or track, but rather in sex. Sexiest Olympics ever? 2012-07-29T01:00:00Z

He earned the moniker of “most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America” and alienated his own children and apparently even his own Church. Who will go to Fred Phelps’ funeral? 2014-03-17T14:12:00Z

The relationship between the two can be complicated – is the machine making humans more alienated, or vice versa, and are we really all that different from our hardware? Radiohead’s vanishing act: Rumored new album could be the anti-technology opus we’ve been waiting for 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mallory doesn’t know why Jennifer ran away, but she thinks there are two possible reasons: “One of those is aliens. And the other is me.” A New Novel From the Author of ‘When You Trap a Tiger’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

One result is to recast familiar sights, recorded in millions of snapshots of tourist scenery, into something alien and almost extraterrestrial. Jasmine Swope's photographs make familiar sights seem almost alien 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The medium remains stuck in what might be called its epic-poem phase, relying on static, larger-than-life characters whose exploits are explicitly fantastical — wizards, aliens, zombies, future soldiers and space marines. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z

In my line of vision were Count von Count from Sesame Street, an alien, a viking hat and the phrase “Global warming is a hoax.” ‘I could never live in Texas. This is Austin.’ — A four-day getaway to the capital city. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Weinbaum’s Mars is truly alien, its ecology its own, and his astronaut must puzzle the intricate relationships between creatures and habitats. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Fans of Microsoft’s hugely popular video game “Halo,” in which humans face off against an alliance of alien species bent on holy war, have also pointed to parallels between the aliens and Al Qaeda. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z

There are funny scenes but it's observational, like Will being thrown around by a pregnant alien with tentacles in the background of a shot. A Minute With: Barry Sonnenfeld about "Men in Black 3" 2012-05-23T11:06:30Z

It was hard not to root for the aliens during “Mars Attacks!,” since their music, for all its needling vehemence, was so delightfully sly. Review: ‘Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton,’ Macabre Yet Sweet 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

These robotic figures are not unlike Mr. McCarthy’s own strangely alienated characters. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z

In this film, an entire English village population falls asleep for 24 hours and awakens to find that an extra-terrestrial visitor has invisibly implanted alien foetuses in every woman of child-bearing age. Why I'd like to be … George Sanders 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The aliens, whose presence at the site of the shootout in the season’s penultimate episode caused controversy among the show’s hardcore fans, appeared only as an inside joke between those who’d witnessed them. The 'Fargo' Finale Proved It's One of TV's Great Shows 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

I've just described some or all of "Independence Day," both versions of "V," Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," and untold numbers of other alien invasion narratives. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z

With a budget of just $25m, it will be fascinating to see how Wyatt delivers a story set 10 years after an alien invasion of Chicago. Future shock: unearthing the most cutting-edge sci-fi movies of 2018 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Usually when people send me stuff, it feels a bit alien to me,” Harron said. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

There's an ongoing fan theory that Stan Lee is a Watcher, an alien species that bear witness to important events in the universe. 20 Easter Eggs You Probably Didn't Notice in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

It would be nice to think it was a commentary on white America's fear of the Other, or on the simple fact that for the Native American, it was the cowboys who were the aliens. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-18T14:00:01Z

If you're into aliens but not so keen on the "storming" part of that "Storm Area 51" Facebook event, there are plenty of alternatives waiting for you in Nevada. 'Storm Area 51' a bit too extreme? Here's how you can safely partake in other alien-related fun 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

He made his film debut in "The Farmer's Daughter" in 1947 as Loretta Young's brother, and appeared four years later in the title part as a space alien in "The Thing from Another World." "Gunsmoke" star James Arness dead at age 88 2011-06-05T11:24:47Z

Best known as a science-fiction writer, not a scientist, Whiteley brings a fascination with the alien aspects of nature to this more informal survey. Are Mushrooms Our Friends? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

In the case of challenging material, striking the right balance between appreciation and rejection of what was alien to Judeo-Christian values could be difficult. Henry Herx, 79, Dies; Reviewed Movies for Catholics 2012-09-02T15:28:01Z

With his short Afro and deep, resonant voice, Glenn-Copeland felt alienated from the students around him. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The story included ninja leader of The Foot Clan, Shredder, as a military Colonel who was actually an alien from Dimension X in disguise. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2' Looks Faithful to the Cartoons, but is it? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

At worst, he was an alien transported to our planet without warning and told to “sort it out”. Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

“To introduce something that deals with the social and political world that we live in — that was alien,” Mr. Haacke recalled, expressing something like understanding for the predicament he’d created for the Guggenheim. Hans Haacke, Firebrand, Gets His First U.S. Survey in 33 Years 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Dunbar, blinded by pride, greed and paranoia, has alienated those most loyal to him, including Florence, his third daughter, who attempts to rescue him and foil her sisters’s plot. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Theories about alien life forms can easily collapse into speculation, and Davies is not immune to the temptation. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z

The aliens here are only after gold, and they produce grabbing hands from their bellies. Cowboys v bankers 2011-08-26T19:59:00Z

However, the Paris section in this new film lasts approximately three minutes, and the rest of the film is all about Ben Affleck punching aliens in the face on the moon. 2084 takes Orwell into a robotic future 2011-07-21T15:54:37Z

In the piece Mr. Del Rosario wears only a dance belt and lets his black hair hang loose around his shoulders, as if he were Tarzan being abducted by aliens. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z

That hero is as much of a cliché as the aliens. 'Battleship' stays afloat in a sea of noise 2012-05-16T19:44:04Z

Even the Los Angeles Times, in their Schneider obituary last winter, observed dryly that at the time of his death, Schneider was alienated from his children. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z

For a man whose singular vision alienated many – a point illustrated by Kutcher's straight-talking, temper-riddled reading of Jobs – those closest to him are barely given time to voice their concerns, let along develop as characters. Sundance film festival 2013: Jobs – first look review 2013-01-28T11:49:30Z

In the photo, a light shines upon Ms. Huddleston, 25, as if from an alien spaceship that is going to beam her up. The Accidental Celebrities of the Impeachment Inquiry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Beyond its alien beauty, there was also the delight of roasting walnuts in a skillet right on the grill. Is this the prettiest salad you've ever seen? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

It was coming from the face of a 4-foot-tall gray creature that resembled the classic aliens from 1977's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

“The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with,” he told The Paris Review in an interview in 2000. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The villain of the piece is Sutekh – a jackal headed green eyed alien, Set from Egyptian mythology. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z

She was 12, alienated and depressed, uncomfortable with herself. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z

Russell narrates in gruff, ludicrous noir style, describing his life before the alien invasion as a prelapsarian time "before war even existed as an idea". Game on: Inversion – preview 2012-07-05T21:01:01Z

There may or may not be aliens at Area 51, but thanks to Arby’s, there will be meat. Arby's promises to 'bring the meat' to Area 51: 'Aliens deserve the best meat on Earth' 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

The Apple TV+ series “Invasion” is about aliens attacking Earth, but Season 1, which arrived almost two years ago, took some time getting to … you know, the invasion. In ‘Invasion,’ Simon Kinberg Adds Touchy-Feely to Creepy-Crawly 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z

In Close Encounters, the US army’s reaction to the threat of alien invasion is limited to marking out a site where it is believed the extra-terrestrial mothership might choose to make first contact. Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

But it is helpful, at times, to see the three-pound human brain as a somewhat bizarre and alien thing. Glimpsing the Brain?s Powers (and Limits) 2010-11-19T18:00:00Z

Wimpy Kid In the book Aliens Love Underpants, what do the aliens want to do with your underpants? Pants in fiction - quiz 2013-02-16T08:05:00Z

He paints flowers on her body and films her, aiming for “a sense of everything having taken on some alien form.” A woman going mad, and a radical refusal, in ‘The Vegetarian’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

And the clock, unlike alien predators and rival cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. He'll be back: why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The link between the aliens and radio waves points towards a possible Skitter early detection system. Falling Skies: episode five 2011-08-02T21:05:01Z

Conspiracists and alien enthusiasts rejoiced at reading headlines about U.F.O.s in reputable outlets such as The New York Times. The Year Space Got Sexy All Over Again 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

But Asians are still seen as foreign or alien to mainstream America.” Music: Eastern Promise: YouTube Helps Legaci?s Breakout 2010-06-18T17:46:00Z

Clark’s loving foster parents the Kents were the heart of the show, instilling values into their alien adoptee. How Clark Kent’s never-ending teen years became Smallville’s kryptonite 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the end, this is an alien landscape and made all the more so by Chalayan's costumes. Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

After the aliens invade earth, humans split off into two camps: one in favor of takeover by the superior aliens and the other determined to resist. Republican senators push back against Netflix over "Game of Thrones" creators' new series 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

It is written about hipsters, not for them, and from the viewpoint of someone contemptuously examining them as an alien lifeform. TV for hipsters: how two new shows are trying to appeal to the cool kids 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about the various ways music is being alienated from the humans who created it and the listeners who hear it, and the philosophical implications for creative agency. What Is a ‘Fake’ Artist in 2022? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Those trials and the related pile-on by Australian media left him deeply alienated from his home country. The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938-2012) 2012-08-07T22:19:53Z

He was recently watching “The Mandalorian,” a spin-off series form the “Star Wars” universe that follows a lone bounty hunter and a mysterious alien child. New kids’ TV show emerges from the Mister Rogers universe 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Plot: Luke is captured by an alien Yeti-type thing on a snowy planet, escapes, and then passes out. How 'Rogue One' Fits Into the Star Wars Timeline 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

“Parallel Lives” begins in the present day, or perhaps even in the recent past, with Schrauwen’s account of his abduction by aliens. Close Encounters with O. Schrauwen’s Mesmerizing “Parallel Lives” 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Her English has a slight tremor of the alien and unexpected, perhaps a relic of a Bulgarian background: I thought of Conrad and how he never spoke a word of the language until adulthood. Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:00Z

Instead, they become alienated or a target and victimised by talk conducted about them. "Spencer": how Diana became the popular culture princess 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Its thugs simply reach into the museum of human-made misery and pull out something at once horribly familiar, and terribly alien. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

He was a space alien with two different colored eyes, far beyond the confining limits of male and female. David Bowie bent the gender rules: His “not sure if you’re a boy or a girl” cool helped rewrite fashion and masculinity codes 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

I had never felt truly comfortable in my body, but lately, it had been a bizarrely foreign entity, an alien encounter each time I looked in the mirror. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Depending on whom you ask, it was built by Phoenicians, Romans, Moors, crusaders, Vikings or aliens. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z

This impersonal approach, so alien to many notions of ballet artistry, is often a central part of the Balanchine experience. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

For a particular sequence in the second episode, I was just like, “Go nuts. Design a bunch of aliens.” Rick and Morty creators: 'We're pulling apart the tropes of sci-fi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

That awkward, momentous time in your life when you’re treated like an alien by everyone around you, even though you know deep down you’re as funky fresh as it gets. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

In Week 1450 the Empress asked for observations by either visiting space aliens or anthropologists from the future. Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

In the first season, newly in his human form, Harry the alien struggles with how to move through the world, physically and emotionally. When Harry met Asta: Syfy's kooky "Resident Alien" is a love story 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

George Kentros, a sterling Swedish violinist, opened with “Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites,” a homesick rumination further alienated by space-borne hiss and squelch, triggered by Ms. Gosfield on a notebook computer. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z

Many superheroes suffer from existential crises, none more so than lost alien Silver Surfer, surely one of the coolest comic-book characters. Readers recommend: songs about superheroes ? results 2011-07-07T13:32:47Z

And the alienated teenager, that fixture of modern American life, didn’t fully exist until J. D. Salinger, with his faultless ear and attentive eye, coaxed him into being. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

At times, the performance felt like a part of a strange, alien variety show, which further demonstrates Glastonbury’s diversity. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Extraterrestrial” plays with the tropes of the alien invasion movie. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

When the Big Kahuna alien ship descends upon the Atlantic Ocean, it does so in a big gray cloud lit through with orange flames, kind of like a giant charcoal briquette. Review: 'Independence Day: Resurgence' Is More of the Same—Yet Less 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The actor is set to first play the alien heavy in "I Am Number Four." "Lost" baddie Kevin Durand books two sci-fi movies 2010-05-07T05:16:00Z

Lovecraft’s terror tale about a doomsday cult that worships an ancient alien god; parental guidance recommended for young children. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 28-Oct. 5: 'The Call of Cthulhu' and more 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Plus there's a surprise staffing announcement, and then aliens land on the netball court. TV highlights – 02/05/2013 2013-05-02T06:00:07Z

If aliens arrived on this planet, what would we ask them and how would we ask it? Sundance preview: Diverse lineup unspools in Park City 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Through alternating chapters, Oliver and Essa chronicle a summer of bonfires and hikes, vividly describing a natural world beloved by Essa and increasingly less alien to Oliver. Review | For kids, lessons on standing out, finding friends and seeking the truth 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Next to some lockers the actors Noah Wyle and Will Patton, rifles over Army-fatigued shoulders, watched on a monitor as their characters bickered over how best to attack an alien base. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z

The Seattle Sound reflected the city’s gritty but wholesome, alienated yet oddly engaged, dynamic. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

“My face was pretty much covered in a strange, bubble-wrapped mask, but it was great fun,” she recalled of her alien role. Esther Freud?s ?Lucky Break? Explores the Actor?s Life 2011-10-30T04:03:33Z

I myself felt alienated by the natural birthers in my Lamaze class, but didn’t hesitate to ask for an anesthesiologist as soon as I arrived at the hospital to deliver my son. Why Having an Epidural Should Count as Having a Natural Birth 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

An alien Britney falls to earth in a comet, but she spends the entire video inside of a metal room filled with wires, video feeds and Sony computers/televisions. Dissecting Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" 2011-02-18T16:45:00Z

Fully bodied and wholly alienated, Bone finally does rise to the occasion, but he scarcely saves the day. Film: The Dude Plumbs His Weary Soul 2010-02-26T23:03:00Z

Is it simply a shadow, or could it be something more sinister – like an alien? Apollo 18 is totally eclipsed by aliens on the moon 2011-02-23T12:37:00Z

The shot Ridley Scott chose not to keep in the film was a wide frame of the actress and the alien, which was completely contained within the frame and therefore the least scary thing imaginable. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z

No one, though, is becoming too carried away and the fact that bees keep disappearing – often overnight, without trace, like an alien abduction – creates a sombre undercurrent to the evening. Isabella Rossellini: the Bee movie star 2012-09-29T23:05:16Z

The new"Predator" prequel film takes place 300 years before the iconic 1987 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and sees the alien hunter fightings warriors of the Comanche tribe of Native Americans on the Great Plains. "Prey" is the No. 1 premiere on Hulu; original "Predator" stars sing its praises 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

That commitment means I feel alienated a whole lot of the time in this city and in this school. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

No, it's not the resurfaced memory of a past alien abduction. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

In the Resistance series, the second world war ends and aliens invade, first Europe then, in Burning Skies, fortress America. This week's new games 2012-06-01T23:06:07Z

The alien in turn, at first baffled and disgusted by humans, grows increasingly attached to his Earth family. The Humans by Matt Haig – review 2013-05-15T07:00:04Z

In the course of these years, we alienated a generation of young people across the Middle East. A letter to my daughter: What I want you to know about freedom, fear and Donald Trump 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

The series depicts humanity under the rule of an alien race, the Hegemons. Lion City march 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

But this is the HQ/command centre for the aliens. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-18T14:00:01Z

As a result, my hand right now, as my brother-in-law David gleefully pointed out, looks like the paw of an alien creature. Notes from a trailing spouse: Los Angeles has a lot to learn about Abu Dhabi 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Falling Skies has been something of a curate's egg: some great, fascinating alien science fiction stuff encased in a mess of sentimentality and weak characterisation. TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off 2011-08-29T22:00:00Z

Pratt plays a biology teacher who is conscripted to “jump” 30 years into the future to help fight off alien invaders. Five Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

In Cannes, she seems both completely at home and slightly alien, her pale, luminous skin all the more striking amid the Riviera tans. Swinton talks blood, birth and tomatoes in Cannes 2011-05-14T15:01:05Z

“It was like an alien had delivered it from outer space.” Remember the pay phone? This man is bringing them back at no cost. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

As television, the inauguration showed the degree to which Trump dims in voltage when alienated from the particular tools of his trade. On TV, Trump’s Inauguration Made Him Seem Small 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Were there other alien films that inspired the story? ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z

Indeed, Zeman alienated many by snubbing the square’s official ceremonies, which he considered offensive to the Russians he admires. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Across these scarred pages rages the clash that many of us are anxiously speculating about in the Trump era: a nation riven by irreconcilable ideologies, alienated by entrenched suspicions. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

In tonight’s season finale, a base is destroyed, there is a reunion and a new alien race arrives on Earth. Sunday TV Picks: ‘Falling Skies’ season finale on TNT 2013-07-31T20:36:48Z

Mr. Bowie’s voice was similarly labile — gliding between ragged cackle and haunting croon as he sang about decaying cities and alienated rock stars. David Bowie dies at 69; mesmerizing performer and restless innovator 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

There was an error in our recent coverage of three alien spaceships landing near a Montana town. Style Invitational Week 1470: Your add here 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

The alien muumuus and trippy music videos currently crammed into the MoMA might help stoke the horizons of our collective imagination, but they might also tangle our access to Björk’s fundamental message. All is full of love: Listening for Bjork’s radical humanity 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The duo, who broadcast from Manchester, said they felt alienated from the station's bosses in London and were quietly dropped after just eight months. In pictures: Radio 1 breakfast show 2012-07-11T11:41:57Z

“Xenos means a foreigner or alien or stranger in Greek, i.e. xenophobia, and it just seems apt and relevant to my reflection of the world today and how xenophobia is growing,” he told Reuters. Dance star Akram Khan prepares for swansong tour 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Called Zainichi, or foreign residents, ethnic Koreans are required to reapply for alien registration cards every three years even if they were born in Japan, and are rarely granted passports, making overseas travel nearly impossible. Home but Not Home: Four Generations of an Ethnic Korean Family in Japan 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

He's living beyond his means and has to keep borrowing money from the handful of people he hasn't completely alienated. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z

We never see Erwin at work, which allows the movie to eschew an “alienated labor” analysis and concentrate on the more currently fashionable “declining masculinity” theme. Review: In ‘How Heavy This Hammer,’ Life Takes a Toll on Dad 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The captured skitter stuff was almost all fine; it's a standard routine in science fiction and while Falling Skies offered nothing particularly new, it did reveal a lot more about our alien overlords. Falling Skies: episode four 2011-07-26T21:00:02Z

It’s the posture of someone waiting to be beamed up by aliens, of someone ready for the Rapture. Review: City Dancers Unleashed in the Wild 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

One film looks like genius, while watching seven or eight together leaves you feeling trapped in an alien dream. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

The film stars Aaron Eckhart as a veteran soldier leading a platoon of Marines in combat against invading aliens. `Battle: LA' conquers box office with $36 million 2011-03-13T20:16:04Z

Some songs had working titles that were "alien" to the lyrics. The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

In sympathy with a foreign power, Lindbergh fans the flames of America’s xenophobia, demonizes an “alien” minority group and systematically dismantles the civil structure of the United States, all to protect us. Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

There were no references to aliens or government mind control. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

It's nice to be experimental with fusion recipes but why misguide viewers by making an alien cousin of a classic dish? Paratha That’s Easy, Versatile and Burnished With Butter 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Tudyk is at it again, except that this time he’s playing a towering, pompous alien scornful of the humans he’s been sent to exterminate. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

According to their story, simple cavemen would encounter intelligent aliens who would help them acquire brainpower and so set humanity on the path to the planets. Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Until Mama Rosin was founded just over five years ago, Cajun music was as alien to Switzerland as cuckoo clocks would be in the swamps. Mama Rosin: Some like it hot 2011-01-06T22:29:00Z

If your summer wish list includes aliens, gore and a crème brûlée blow torch, this Australian film is a convenient one-stop shop. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

It is as though the moral precepts that govern much of the world’s behavior are derived from far-off and alien civilizations. Book Review Podcast: Michel Faber’s ‘Book of Strange New Things’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

They argue the public feels alienated by, and distrustful of, journalism that rarely solicits their perspectives and, consequently, fails to accurately reflect their lives. Journalism needs an audience to survive, but isn’t sure how to earn its loyalty 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

In one of its hits, “Here,” she sang about feeling antisocial and alienated at a loud party. Alessia Cara: Young, Gifted and Bummed Out 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s an attitude familiar to children and scientists both: The earth may not be alien, but its wonders and strangeness should never be taken for granted. His Son Hiked Into the Costa Rican Jungle, and Never Came Out. What Happened? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

With Robertson, a Louisiana sign painter who believed in space aliens and the apocalypse, Mr. Ogden found an artist who easily crosses over from outsider to street art. Art Review: The 20th Anniversary of the Outsider Art Fair 2012-01-28T00:34:51Z

But her willingness to assert herself, sometimes loudly, could be a double-edged sword, and she has alienated plenty of entertainment industry executives. Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

To see someone else and think because they look different that they’re an alien? Note to Dancers: ‘Drop Your Self-Consciousness’ and Get Into It 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

A mob protest outside the courthouse conjures the witch hunt surrounding a case in which these alienated teenagers were denounced as Satanists by fearful Christians. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z

The collection began with the signature aggressive aesthetic: A model in alien makeup, an abstract black amorphous girdle and giant black platform waders. Chloe attracts the stars at outdoor eco-show in Paris 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

It’s when sportswear meets office wear meets alien wear. When Dressing for Work is Part of the Job 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’ “Fake news” isn’t new: In 1939, Orson Welles co-opted the form of the radio news bulletin for a panic-sowing adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel about an alien invasion. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The rapidity of his remarriage alienated him from his large family; he, his two children with his first wife, and his new wife moved from Guaymas to Chihuahua. “The Devil Never Sleeps,” Reviewed: A Mexican Documentary Filmmaker’s Rare Classic About the Mysteries of a Death in the Family 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

The aliens’ musings over human biology and its contribution to society are illuminating: The most valuable thing about humanity, they argue, is a literal cancer on the species. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Rundell explains, clearly and concisely, the special dynamics that drive the kingdom and render it so alien from our own society. The Mysteries of the American-Saudi Alliance 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Ragged, jubilant and rather "punk rock", these concerts also attracted some complaints: at a gig in Portsmouth earlier this month, he "alienated and abused" the crowd, according to the event's promoter. Adam Ant checks into hospital 2010-05-24T12:14:00Z

“The concept of having aliens on a week- to-week basis, sometimes new, sometimes ones that the audience was familiar with, gave the writers the ability to represent all the different qualities of humanity,” says Berman. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It makes the everyday world feel like an alien planet. Films out this week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Growing another human being inside your body is a natural human process that can nevertheless feel eerie, alien and supernatural. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Hell Ship is a freewheeling extravaganza replete with a hundred varieties of alien, vast spacecraft, exotic worlds, weapons of mass destruction and battles that destroy a million civilisations and annihilate countless universes. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z

The difference is that, this time, the hero gets infected with some alien gookum, and his arm turns into a prawn-like claw. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z

But Zed’s college dreams and the cheer championship are thrown into chaos when aliens descend upon their peaceful town. ‘Zombies 3’ Review: Take Me to Your Cheerleader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

In just that little scene where he delivers Eli to the aliens, with weird harnessed Megan as intermediary, the plot made a huge leap forward. Falling Skies: episode six 2011-08-09T21:00:00Z

The mode of communication invites comparison to the grand finale in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when governments scientists chat with aliens through lights. The 10 Absolute Best Stranger Things References 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

They're alien invasion spectacles and shoot first, don't question action flicks. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

“I’m a bit shameless like that. I’m a non-intimate extrovert, so the idea of being in a totally alien environment doesn’t faze me.” The secret world of liggers: ‘Free booze is everywhere’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Thompson and Keach say the dusty towns seemed alien to younger viewers, who preferred space, the final frontier, which allowed for western stories and characters – Captain Kirk as the sheriff – in a new setting. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

It almost seems as if the aliens do their unwitting hosts a favor. Review: In ‘Before We Vanish,’ the Aliens Have a Lot of Questions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Naïve curiosity and scientific optimism lead us to discover that, as Oates puts it, “an entire alien civilization lurks on the underside of the known world.” The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

And when he sends the alien — a 6-foot-5 contortionist — storming down the halls on set after you, it does get your heart racing. Danny McBride Is Not Who You Think He Is 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He painted our cities: impermeable, alien and at once impossibly distant and suffocatingly close. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Jeezy was representing for those who have been alienated, who usually say they do not participate in the political process,” Bonnette-Bailey says. Atlanta rappers are backing Stacey Abrams. And it all goes back to Young Jeezy. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The film gave way to other creative, angry aliens like the Predator from “Predator,” a scaly braids-wearing menace that would fight its way into the “Alien” franchise in 2004, with “Alien vs. Predator.” How ‘Alien’ Spawned So Many Others 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

That made them a thinly veiled stand-in for whatever driving force they represented, giving the writers a way to craft stories that were less about aliens and more about us. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

She looked at me like I was an alien and said, “But you’re so young.” Carla Gugino Has Range, From ‘Spy Kids’ to Experimental Theater 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Here, Valerian is on a mission to catch up with some alien characters quickly. Luc Besson Narrates a Scene From ‘Valerian’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Remember Dobbs saying, “The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans”? Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z

One reader compared him to “an alien from another world cast in a sci-fi film, like Star Trek.” Behind the Death of Dr. Fredric Brandt, Cosmetic Dermatologist to the Stars 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

And I think that thing is a special thing, but it also makes us feel somewhat alien, somewhat removed from our present. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

One type of limey dominates at the festival: the 40-year-old with a background in Channel 4 comedy, keen on alien invasion, now lucratively tapping a big screen US geek sensibility. SXSW 2011: the best of British film at the festival 2011-03-14T20:59:00Z

Moffat said the first two episodes of the new series – which feature a mystery alien species known as the Silents – is the scariest opener to any Doctor Who series yet. Doctor Who: it's back ? promising to be the scariest and darkest yet 2011-04-04T23:23:43Z

“We hope that people will stay for two minutes and start empathizing with the siphonophore. It is like a mesmerizing alien that you can enjoy from far away.” Dancers From the Deep Sea Shine on the U.N. for Climate Week 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

How did racism in the 19th-century United States compare with other nations’ treatment of alien peoples? ‘Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion’ Exhibition Opens 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

He found solace in the love of his "alien mum". Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects 2013-06-18T06:00:11Z

But we also learn that in 1940 some 27,000 Jewish refugees from Germany were treated as enemy aliens and held in detention camps. Museum Review: Where the Jewish Star Meets the Union Jack 2010-03-16T22:18:00Z

He admits that work in today’s world is “grinding,” meaningless, alienated, coercive. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z

In just 25 minutes, we follow as Stephen talks about the origins of the cosmos, alien life, his own life and our place in the universe. What it was like to work on a film with Stephen Hawking 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Unlike the camps where West Coast Japanese-Americans were imprisoned en masse, Crystal City houses enemy aliens suspected of actually spying — and not just Japanese. Historical Fiction That Takes Children to War Zones and Internment Camps 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The Yeti are really robots in hairy ape costumes – because an alien robot is not scary enough. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z

In another, the attractive pickup in a bar turns out to be, in Klein’s words, “a vampire, werewolf, alien, squid, giant spider, gelatinous mass — all the things we’ve always feared in a one-night stand.” Review | These two books will lead you down a rabbit hole to unexpected literary delights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Along the way Mr. Arias, who here resembles a steroid-inflated Bettie Page, is probed and caressed by many alien hands — I partly mean alien as in space aliens. | 'Arias With a Twist': ?Arias With a Twist? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2011-09-19T02:01:03Z

Over the course of the day, Limentani finds himself increasingly alienated from the new Italy he encounters. The World War II Tragedy of Italy’s Jews, Preserved in Fiction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

One plot point hinges on how an alien image is translated. Aliens as immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ became the latest political sci-fi film 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

There is no mention of Keith’s concern about potentially alienated donors. Layoffs, tensions over Black Lives Matter posts roil Seattle Children’s Museum 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The only thing missing is an evil alien or malevolent extraterrestrial organism, but that would not be germane. ‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: It’s the End of the World, in the Arctic 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The Host language is so alien that it can only be spoken by genetically engineered Ambassadors, and uses human colonists as living similes for complex ideas. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

Many of these films deliberately mimic the tropes and stylistic tics of indie cinema – alienated teenagers, dysfunctional families, meditations on suburban soulnessness, self-consciously quirky humour, and a generous resort to shock tactics or the taboo . Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z

When they first saw the design the council's planning officers called it "unacceptable", "alien" and "ungainly", "with an overly-complex external envelope that has no relationship with its setting". Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z

Portentous, woozy background music was playing, as if an alien encounter was imminent. At the Sonic Sphere, a ‘Whoa’ Moment (and Some Music) 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

You may know Pascal from “The Mandalorian,” in which his helmeted bounty hunter shepherds a cuddly alien through the Star Wars galaxy’s sleazier precincts. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

She also documents the hardship and uncertainty faced by others in the camp — “enemy aliens” who had lived peacefully in the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor turned their world upside down. ‘The Train to Crystal City’: a WWII detainees camp in Texas 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Less successful are the exchanges between a social worker and an alienated adolescent locked up after going on a murderous rampage at his school. 'The Why' revival at Blank Theatre sparks fresh questions 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

"We have always felt like resident aliens when we've made a record," she said. Brandi Carlile returns home with hit album, new spouse 2012-11-18T00:58:27Z

“He’s incredibly familiar Americana and alien, exotic, bizarroland, but beautifully woven together.” ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z

I feel this in many ways: I'm too tall and I'm a little too pale and you know, I've always felt a little bit like an alien. A Minute With: Stephen Merchant on dreaming and despairing in L.A 2013-09-25T11:33:15Z

After all, when you look at advertising from the past the basic techniques haven't changed; what seems startlingly alien are the attitudes it was acceptable to portray and the products you were allowed to advertise. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z

Having unlocked the secrets of intergalactic travel, the aliens apparently never mastered the technology of heat-seeking missiles. Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess 2011-03-11T11:05:00Z

I think I've only recently stopped having nightmares about aliens in the woods. Mulder and Scully at San Diego Comic-Con: the 13 best X-Files episodes ever 2013-07-18T12:00:00Z

The discovery of alien life would be the greatest discovery in the history of science. Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Maybe the strangest thing about watching the early episodes of “Miracle Day” is the complete lack of aliens. Television Review: Death Takes a Holiday, but Not the Aliens 2011-07-07T22:01:58Z

There he played around in Adobe Creative Suite, designing tentacled bioluminescent aliens using images of deep sea fish and animating them with the modeling software 3ds Max. Making Movies With Laptops and Ingenuity 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

They’re an alien race, it turns out, in the process of enslaving the Earth, mainly through the use of television, and exploiting its inhabitants until nothing remains. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

It was “a way to feel like I was part of a group,” she remembers, during a time when she felt alienated from the art establishment. Kim Gordon Wanted to Be a Visual Artist. Then She Got ‘Sidetracked.’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

William Cage but with the understandable chaos of an invasion of Earth by aliens known as Mimics, a creepy race that look a bit like a horde of angry metallic squid. 'Edge of Tomorrow,' Tom Cruise run loops around competition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Thailand's Phang Nga Bay resembles an alien seascape, where towering limestone cliffs in improbable shapes carve the view into unfamiliar patterns of land, sea and air. In Pictures: The World's Most Amazing Views 2011-02-18T16:30:00Z

He's gruff, laconic, alienated from their son and incapable of showing his feelings. Song for Marion – review 2013-02-24T00:05:36Z

And that was the version of the alien movie that we wanted to emulate with this film, and the script really lent itself well to that. "Iron Man" maker rustles up some "Cowboys & Aliens" 2011-07-28T15:29:06Z

Words came slowly or not at all; emotions were perceived as if at a great distance, alien and remote. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

But don't a lot of children feel like aliens in their own family? 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Lawns: emerald green — no, alien green — and kept that way by maniacal vigilance and an elaborate system of pipes and potions, organic and otherwise, in defiance of ecology. There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Spock-like alien Dllenahkh hears the news of his home’s destruction while honing his mental skills at a monastic retreat circling another sun. ‘The Best of All Possible Worlds’: after total destruction, a tentative romance 2013-03-07T20:49:49Z

Well, we did do something similar a few years ago with Buster and his fascination with aliens, so … Marc Brown on the End of ‘Arthur’ and His Favorite Fan Theories 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

The people or machines or aliens who are supposed to be running our lives are having some kind of breakdown. Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Compared with the stiffness of many of the other things on the floor, they looked alien. Critical Shopper : Club Monaco?s Updated Men?s Wear Emphasizes Suits 2010-03-31T16:54:00Z

Having alien hordes constantly amble right into a shower of gunfire continues this trite theme, and the action teeters close to irrelevance too often. Game On: 'Prejudice' delivers value 2011-05-10T18:02:05Z

Then, after the aliens appeared, she was called upon to “interrupt” this planned concert, giving the audience regular updates and facilitating question-and-answer sessions with sources outside the hall, where extraterrestrial destruction is taking place. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Other emergencies could be handled by the people who were present. It’s just an alien invasion, that’s something that could be handled. Half the population wasn’t dying and flicking off and doing whatever.” Samuel L. Jackson defends Nick Fury’s choice not to call Captain Marvel until after "Infinity War" 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

As he so often does, Martin conveys in his masterpiece a sense of immensity that is alien to the Italianate master from the Lorraine. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

How did you manage to persuade a Hollywood studio that a film about alien linguistics was a good investment? How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Looking at Simon's drawings of his alien kin, I felt an "awkward family photos" giggling fit coming on, but then felt mean for laughing. Rewind TV: The Returned; Confessions of an Alien Abductee; The Fall; Dates; Agnetha: Abba and After – review 2013-06-15T17:00:05Z

Yet it exemplifies an ethos that is, in some ways, as alien to Western sensibilities as the court of Siam was to Anna Leonowens. Boys in Love 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

In “The Monarchy of Fear,” she insinuates that her postelection alarm felt not just uncomfortable but alien to her. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The Doctor gets called in when intelligence operatives working for organizations are attacked without warning by strange alien forces that materialize out of nowhere. Before the first female 007 debuts, Jodie Whittaker's "Doctor Who" gets into the spy game 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

In fact, I feel like what is truly ironic about the show is the alien seems to be the only real normal one walking around. "Resident Alien" star Sara Tomko on otherness and relationships: "It's so hard to be human 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

The assassins feel alone, alienated by sadness, unrequited love, their failures. “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Then Zephyr plucked periwinkles from marsh grasses and watched them unfurl, looking like alien snails. On Virginia’s Chincoteague Island — all this and ponies, too 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

But insects also exert a queasy fascination — they’re so alien, and so ubiquitous, that they become ideal subjects for scientific study, and for books. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

He fit no model of the alienated, violent loner. Columbine killer’s mother: ‘The greatest mercy I could pray for was . . . for his death’ 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

"If an alien flew up and stuck his face in the camera, obviously we would want them to film it." IMAX puts 3D spin on science films with "Hubble 3D" 2010-04-03T16:03:00Z

I had never felt so alienated from my own body. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

But pass the mosques around prayer time in the neighborhoods of Fatih or Balat, and secularism seems like an alien fantasy. Museums: In Turkey?s Museums, Sacred and Secular Interweave 2010-05-25T22:26:00Z

It seems a long way from the classical training she underwent during graduate school at Yale; how do you build character and motivation when you’re playing an alien? Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Under the makeup, Star Wars is just human wants and desires’ 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

For a UK audience this fetishistic reverence accorded to the news process is as exotic and culturally alien as a foot-long hotdog at a Yankees game. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z

Intimate and never condescending, Ms. Hadleigh-West’s chaotic, on-the-fly shooting style opens a portal to an alien land, a corner of America where many whites fear to tread. Movie Review: ?Player Hating,? Maggie Hadleigh-West?s Documentary 2012-04-06T00:13:43Z

Vanessa Chapoy is properly animated with curiosity as the title character getting coached by the alien, but this simple story mainly aims to inspire young kids you might bring along. Review | ‘The Burn’ channels ‘The Crucible’ for a social media age 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for instance — another super strong, alienated teen in high school — regularly demanded answers from her watcher, Giles. Movie Review: Why I'm So Glad I Am Not Number Four 2011-02-17T10:15:00Z

The wrenching passion of love, the fear and heroism of war, and how lonely these hungers and dreads are in children’s often isolated and alienated experience of life. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Brockie, 50, who gained an international fan base performing as a 43-billion-year-old alien vocalist for the satirical band, was found by his roommate on March 23 dead in his Richmond home. Gwar frontman David Brockie died of heroin overdose -coroner 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

To Albert, ambition is a quality that arises organically from both vanity and a genuine wish to do good work; it’s also something she regards as alien and horrific. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Somatic methods are not alien to the military. What Does a Dancing Body Feel Like in Ukraine? ‘I Am a Gun.’ 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

He notes that fascist politicians, who portray themselves as defenders of a pure, mythic, patriarchal past, frequently play on fears that alien groups pose a sexual threat. Is Donald Trump a Fascist? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Miles took on the task of examining Marie "to check if she really does have alien implants". Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects 2013-06-18T06:00:11Z

“A lot of the ancient alien stuff relies on willful ignorance and temporal chauvinism” — a disbelief that ancient people were capable of complex feats of engineering, Mr. Feder said. Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Here, though, the solution to Eddie’s life challenges lies not in joining the military, but in being joined by an aforementioned alien “symbiote,” one named Venom, who finds Eddie a comfortable fit. Review: In ‘Venom,’ Tom Hardy as a Weirder-Than-Usual, Not-Quite Superhero 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But Indigenous critics say the problematic pitfalls of the first Avatar movie reappear in the sequel, namely in its portrayal of the Na’vi, the movie’s alien species inspired by several Native tribes around the world. Indigenous people slam Avatar (again) for tropes and inaccuracies 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

All of this might have come easily to Touchy Feely Tennant, but Matt Smith's weirdo Doctor really comes into his own this week – he's never looked more alien. Doctor Who: The Lodger ? Series 31, episode 11 2010-06-12T18:30:00Z

There’s a certain dark irony in the massive institutions that are largely responsible for the alienated isolation of the average American taking on the task of fixing that alienation with cutesy hashtags. #RaceTogether is a debacle: The real reason why Starbucks, McDonald’s and Coke keep failing on Twitter 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Or a giant swimming manta ray, or maybe an alien spacecraft. At new French museum, the building steals the show 2010-05-10T13:43:00Z

“They see us as aliens. They don’t see us as belonging here.” Ignored in Life, Bernice Bing Is Discovered as Museums Rewrite History 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Seeing aliens advocating the Black Lives Matter campaign cleverly makes the point that even extraterrestrial observers can see our world needs to change. New York’s Sidewalk Prophets Are Heirs of the Artisans of France’s Lascaux Caves 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Is there a scene in Alien where some aliens drip on to Weaver’s hand? Kristen Stewart's new film is nothing like Alien – except for all the bits like Alien 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

So while we tried to be fair, the following list has a large contingent of cowards, scumbags and aliens who gain the public’s trust by wearing Bob Dole skinsuits. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

In six-inch platform stiletto boots, corset and Elizabethan collar, a tall and thin figure towered over the crowd like an alien monarch. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

There's another, according to Favreau: "The nice thing about an alien movie is that the bad guy is a bad guy to everybody on earth." Cowboys & Aliens: the only politically correct face-off? 2011-08-22T09:46:08Z

The arrival of aliens off the coast of Lagos transforms the area and the people, miraculously remedying centuries of oceanic destruction caused by industrial and colonial exploitation. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s the willingness to reveal “ourselves” that lets us get out of the way and allow this utterly alien vision to show itself. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

The alien's name could be a tribute to George Pal, producer of the pioneering SF films Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds and Conquest of Space. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z

The script, an ingenious concoction of familiar tropes and subversions thereof, gave humanity five years until an unfriendly alien species crash-landing in 2015 has laid claim to most of continental Europe. Apocalypse now-ish: what can we learn from films set in 2020? 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Of the parents who sent their children to signing schools, the majority never themselves learned more than preschool-level sign language, so that “home” was, for many of these children, isolating and alien. Motherlode Blog: Teaching a Deaf Child Her Mother's Tongue 2012-05-08T19:22:55Z

The big movies this year have been full of monsters, aliens, robots – all sorts of creatures and creations. Where's the thrill in today's cookie-cutter monster movies? 2011-08-16T16:58:08Z

Simply tilt your phone from side to side to direct the Doodler as it bounces higher and higher on a series of disappearing platforms while avoiding killer aliens and other pitfalls. Best apps: our experts pick 50 of the most dazzling, useful and novel 2010-12-26T00:04:04Z

The box office for 2011 was 21.5 percent off last year's pace. Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian said the weekend business was "good news for aliens, bad news for the overall box office." `Battle: LA' conquers box office with $36 million 2011-03-13T20:16:04Z

The detainees are assigned "alien numbers," then are taken to a holding cell, followed by a medical area for X-rays and pregnancy tests, and finally to a living cell. An Art Walk stroll through the story of immigration 2010-06-30T21:45:00Z

One of its most disappointing essays is about aliens in science fiction, which manages, against stupefying odds, to contain just one interesting insight: that authors tend to be more concerned with physics than with biology. ‘Aliens’ Asks: If the Universe Is So Vast, Where Is Everybody? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

In 2014, Marvel turned Guardians of the Galaxy, an obscure comic featuring aliens, a talking raccoon and a monosyllabic tree, into a massive hit. Here’s Why Hollywood Will Never Stop Making Spider-Man Movies 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

From the ages of 15 to 20 he was a regular face on TV as floppy-haired alien Tommy in the sitcom 3rd Rock From The Sun. From 3rd Rock's floppy-haired alien to Leonardo DiCaprio's gravity-defying assistant in Inception 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

It’s about aliens, yes, but also words: How might humans learn to translate a language from another galaxy, especially when it consists of inky circular splotches? Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

We think this means the whole of drug-ridden noughties Baltimore is the first stage in a terrifying alien plan to take over the Earth, with Jimmy McNulty as their human stooge proxy leader. It's all connected! Pixar and the history of surprising film and TV shared universes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Rock'n'roll at its best is the creation of aliens. Kiss: monsters of rock 2012-07-12T19:30:00Z

In the US, the generation of artists who trained in the 1930s grew up copying him, but then burst out of his shadow to create abstract expressionism, which was totally alien to Picasso. Picasso and Modern British Art ? review 2012-02-13T16:01:52Z

We see a much younger Mulder attending her as she fights her way back from the aftermath of what they thought was an alien abduction. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10, Episode 4: Back in the Day 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

She alienated her nearest and dearest, even falling out with a best friend, only to end up appalled by her own streak of self-indulgence, of “getting lost up my own navel-gazing behind.” Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Anti-immigrant outbursts, and posters decrying an “alien tide” buttress the theme of Poirot as an outsider whose identity, as a detective and a British subject, is under attack. Review: In Amazon’s ‘ABC Murders,’ John Malkovich Is a Sad Poirot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

With the possible exception of Spock and the rest of the Vulcans, Star Trek’s best-known aliens are the Klingons. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The two-night yammering touched on everything from the rise of Artificial Intelligence to the fall of Twitter and the existence of aliens, thumping on a few of Musk's greatest hits in the spaces between. Elon Musk and "Tucker Carlson Tonight": A distracting match made in misinformation paradise 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t his style, and before long McConaughey started to feel alienated. Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

"If I looked up, saw an alien and they wanted to beam me up — I wouldn't exactly say no." How quarantine has inspired new amateur astronomers (some who wouldn't mind an alien abduction) 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z

Now Jonnie has to negotiate with the alien powers who are jockeying to fill the power vacuum left behind, and things aren’t looking so good for the human race. “Battlefield Earth”: Romney vs the Psychlos 2012-05-24T20:42:00Z

Mankind receives a signal from space, music from the alien world Rakhat. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z

But aside from that gesture at a backstory, Strafford is just another alienated detective doggedly searching for truth in a ruined world. Review | John Banville’s new novel begins, like a game of Clue, with a body in the library 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

It's not like the Pythons took the narrative terribly seriously either: at one point, Brian is plucked out of a tight situation by a visiting alien spaceship. Life of Brian: No 10 2010-10-18T10:44:00Z

In an incredible breakthrough at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, scientists created a living bacterium that contains lab-created “alien” DNA. Creating “alien” DNA on Earth: Lab creates life with genetic code outside our own 2014-05-08T16:10:00Z

Neither cute nor cuddly, the babies come off as alien — not in the sense that they come from outer space but in the deep sense of mystery they embody. Deep sense of mystery pervades Peter Zokosky's paintings 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The heartbreaker The Thing bombed; audiences clearly preferred their aliens a little cuter. What was the best summer ever for big-budget film? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

In a final appearance as beloved character Colleen Rafferty, she unraveled one last hilarious alien abduction story before walking onto a spaceship to leave with them forever. "Saturday Night Live" will be trash without Aidy Bryant 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

On the surface it is a conventional story about an alien invasion of Earth and what life would be like under the newcomers' totalitarian regime. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Getting dumped by Carmen is just the start: he messes up his command, gets mercilessly flogged and is reported dead after a disastrous mission against the alien Bugs. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Smashing plates and combusting appliances replace Mr. Spielberg’s high-budget alien apocalypse. Art in Review: Guy Ben Ner: ‘Soundtrack’ 2014-01-30T21:44:13Z

"They present an alien, skinny, scrawny, blond, skeletal beauty." Teen girls to Teen Vogue: Stop altering photos 2012-07-11T18:19:49Z

Later on in the Pentateuch, when Moses is given the law by God, to regulate the life of God's people and demonstrate God's values, some basic rights for women and "aliens" are enshrined. The Book of Genesis, part 6: Patriarchs and others 2011-01-18T12:37:35Z

The show, which features both new songs and old favorites by Mr. Bowie, is about an alien trapped on earth, clinging to hope of some kind of immortal life in space. After David Bowie’s Death, ‘Lazarus’ Holds New Meaning for Fans 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

It sketches a story of an alien entity of pure consciousness that comes to Earth and experiences time and corporeality as new sensations. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The fantasy, when he forgets the prophecies of doom and indulges it, reveals how contentedly American this professional alien actually is. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z

But if he alienates himself completely, he reasons, then he won’t be constantly reminded of the ways he is alienated. Looking for a place called hope 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, in this grand, sprawling Georgian town house, he created a multi-venue pleasurama, a sensory overload of challenging artworks, alien’s egg loos and extraordinary and curious food. David Shrigley at Sketch, London W1 – restaurant review 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Within , Nigel's death was cataclysmic, unfair, enormous: a cot death, bus crash and alien attack rolled into one. Rewind radio: The Archers; Today; The Radio 1 Daytime Takeover 2011-01-09T00:05:45Z

They’re putting this really raw, alien thing in your hands and trusting you to see it through. Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

An episode featuring an alien man giving birth was criticised as being part of the “PC agenda”, when in reality it felt more like a lazy attempt at trans inclusion. Too woke? Nope – Doctor Who is more offensive than ever 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Alien was about an alien and they live in outer space. Kristen Stewart's new film is nothing like Alien – except for all the bits like Alien 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Later in the narrative we learn that this is a consequence of Billy’s subsequent abduction by Tralfamadorians, aliens who happen to be unbound by the normal limitations of time and space. The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Iron Sky Will Smith takes the alien comedy back to the 1960s. This week's new films 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Eddie Murphy remade The Nutty Professor, but his innate cool is something alien to the rather conservative Lewis. Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life | Peter Bradshaw 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

“He felt an irresistible longing for lightness — it was a quality, he realized only now, that had been alien to him all his life.” Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

The second question, however, forces people who care about art to parse its meaning and importance in alien terms. Perspective | How record-setting art auctions are ruining the old neighborhood 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Seems a bit funny that the engineers, as the aliens are called, wouldn't just inhabit the planet as themselves. Can you solve the Prometheus puzzle? 2012-06-13T15:44:05Z

What's more, he gets to hang out with all the aliens. Green Lantern: light entertainment 2011-04-06T15:09:33Z

The aliens themselves are benevolent, celestial beings who only want to learn more about us, test out our ability to understand basic chord progressions and so forth. Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The mall’s sinuous lines and shiny exterior recall a pulsating alien spaceship. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

I like the possible aliens – snuffly things that cling to cliffs. TV review: The Special Relationship, Stephen Hawking's Universe and Merlin 2010-09-20T06:59:00Z

Individual dignity, equality, fraternity, all that on which the West theoretically places premium value, are brought sharply into focus at the expense of "alien" beings. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s an alternate history where World War I never happened, Poland is still under Russian rule, and a mysterious alien Ice and its life-forms are slowly overtaking Europe. Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

The problem is that he has nowhere to go – he’s alienated himself for years – and I can’t just throw him on to the street in this situation. Love in the time of corona: 'This wasn't how I planned it, but she said yes' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

Fifty years of humans, mythological creatures, robots, aliens and assorted monsters, as well as 11 regenerations of the Doctor is just a bit too overwhelming. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z

I lost my job and I am alienated permanently from my family and most of my friends. My life in sex: the man who left his wife for his dominatrix 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

I doubt anyone thinks the director has been kidnapped by space aliens or that his carcass will be discovered at the bottom of a gorge somewhere. The delightful disappearance of Jean-Luc Godard 2010-08-30T18:31:00Z

Even Star-Lord leads a team of colorful aliens who, with the exception of Rocket, are all played by real-life multiracial actors. White hero, sidekick of color: why Marvel needs to break the cycle 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

His was the name you always noticed in the credits of 3rd Rock, a smart comedy about aliens who lived on Earth. Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

In 2013, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology asked three prominent scientists whether life — aliens, if you wish — exists beyond Earth. These Books Transport You to a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

In an alienated world, the utterly banal can be ominous. Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Navigating the virtual environment with their cursor keys, club-goers explore artworks and architecture, encountering other patrons of this alien discothèque, built by an international team of designers, artists and developers. What’s Right About The Wrong Biennale? 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Now he found himself in an alien environment. Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Correcting some of the previous film’s mistakes — not enough alien! too much mythological mumbo-jumbo best left to movies with “Star” in the title! Review: In ‘Alien: Covenant,’ Everybody’s Favorite Predator Returns 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

As 5-year-old Charles Wallace, the brainy boy swept into the control of a pernicious alien entity, Ken Ivy almost made me forget that he’s a decade-plus too old for the part. 'A Wrinkle in Time,' live onstage: A celestial romp aimed at kids 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Specifically, for controllers to experience the most control and gain a “power buzz,” their subjects need to be infantilized, dependent, alienated, and bored. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z

Getting killed by an alien was the high point of my career. One last thing... Sam Trammell 2011-01-08T00:06:06Z

There lies the spectacle of people just like us doing things that today seem scary and alien, like smoking, drinking old-fashioneds at lunch, letting children play with dry-cleaner bags. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z

Treading Water is a huge tune that is impossible to forget, although a stripped down version of Prince's When Doves Cry loses the alien weirdness of the original. Alex Clare ? review 2011-07-13T17:40:01Z

But where the strange, seedy human world of the dinosaur artist is richly realized, less so is the alien world of the dinosaur at the center of the story itself. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The duo tried to imagine what might convince an alien visitor that Earth was worthwhile, according to Performing Songwriter magazine. ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Goes Walking Again, With Gisele Bündchen’s Help 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

She appears to be on the run from some shady looking aliens. ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ Season 3, Episode 1: Reunion Engage 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s an intimidating legacy to live up to, particularly when you feel a bit alienated from the cackling, strutting star who defined a certain kind of wiseguy cool. Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Here’s a look at movies over the past 40 years that imaginatively portrayed aliens. The aliens in ‘Arrival’ are stunning. How do they compare to other film creatures? 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The setup again is a Dagwood sandwich of horror tropes, but with different ingredients: naughty nuns, vivisection, exorcism and, I kid you not, aliens. TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Asylum 2012-10-17T12:00:24Z

Yes, I know the notion of extremely discreet, tenement-sized aliens would be tough to pull off, but these are some very expensive motion pictures. The new “Transformers” trailer shows us Optimus Prime’s face — and I wish it didn’t 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

In Paris at the start of the 20th century, “modern” meant accelerated and alienated; in Seoul at the same moment, it meant economic development and national pride. Museums in the U.S. and Europe Are in Blockbuster Mode 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The rest of the aliens are appalled, and leap at you with needle-sharp spears; the ferocity of the attack breaches your armour. Fighting Fantasy 2012-08-02T14:04:17Z

The symbolic layers are hard to miss; this was an alien Ejiofor knew how to play. Chiwetel Ejiofor Was Asked to Play a Space Alien. He Knew What to Do. 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Connie can’t understand why her feelings about the case — she describes it as a tragedy for both Mr. Brown and Mr. Wilson — have alienated a black friend. Review: The Ghosts of Michael Brown, in ‘Until the Flood’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

They also transport readers to unexpected locations like the alien landscapes of Mars to front-row views of mixed martial arts tournaments. 10 Comic Books to Celebrate Pride 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

The next time the world shuts down – whether from another deadly pandemic, global conspiracy, or even alien invasion – those of us sheltering at home will need our entertainment more than ever. Animation nation: how Covid fuelled the rise of adult cartoons 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z