Not exact matches
The expectation of comprehensive immigration reform has emboldened undocumented
aliens living in the United States to seek reunification
with children they left behind in Central America.
It also provides undocumented
alien parents
with the knowledge that their
children will be educated during their time in the United States.
But don't they all have to do
with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as
child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as
alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?
As a way of learning how to take
alien points of view, this sort of exercise is excellent, and some
children do very fine things
with it.
I very nearly gave up early in that 2005 series though — I think it was the farting
aliens on Downing Street that made me roll my eyes so hard they nearly fell out of my head — but right around the eighth and ninth episodes (called The Empty
Child and The Doctor Dances, a perfect mix of love and fear, creepiness and beauty) was when I fell head over heels in love
with the show.
These are now British
children who are having their minds stuffed
with alien rubbish.
With illegal
aliens, it's not who they are, it's the fact that they are taking from our society, taking to my and my
childrens future, and not contributing.
GR: The question of undocumented
alien children who are stopped at the border being brought to Syracuse temporarily — Mayor, was this your idea originally to bring them here, or did someone come to you
with this?
Steve Boucher shares 2 incredible stories of close encounters
with aliens he had as a
child and as a teenager 1.
Epically bad in virtually every way imaginable, Battleship follows several one - dimensional characters as they attempt to defeat a squadron of heavily - armed
aliens -
with the film, impressively (and laughably), incorporating elements from the eponymous
children's game.
The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that
with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but
with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo,
with a
child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of
alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.
«Ender's Game» Synopsis: In a future where Earth is at war
with an insectoid
alien race known as the Formics, a group of talented
children are brought into space to train to be elite soldiers.
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Reinvigorating the look of
Alien Resurrection is the sensibility of French director Jean - Pierre Jeunet, whose previous films Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost
Children (1995) point directly to the familiar yet exotic and new confines of the Auriga and the Betty (which have the same spooky, almost Victorian feel as the interior of Orson Welles» magnificent Amberson mansion) as well as strange obsessions
with flesh (the new Ripley is described as a «meat byproduct») and cloning (both Perlman and Pinon co-star in City).
In one fascinating scene, David communicates
with a new
alien like its his own
child.
Like an Oscar bait E.T., this soft focus drama stars Kevin Spacey as Prot — either a delusional man stricken
with grief at the loss of his wife and
child or an
alien from the planet K - PAX who travels the galaxy using light.
Both artists often tell stories about misunderstood
children finding connections
with misunderstood, fantastical,
alien creatures.
Upon news of the passing of their mother - an absent, all be it looming figure - the
children demand to go to the funeral, thus triggering a road trip, giving way for
alien encounters
with vast supermarkets, banks and Coca Cola.
He's Midnight Special's emotional core and plot MacGuffin wrapped into one whole, a seemingly
alien child plagued
with all kinds of peculiar powers he can't control.
Women (including Knocked Up's Leslie Mann and Cowboys &
Aliens» Olivia Wilde) and
children bear the brunt of the juvenile jokes,
with their inclusion merely cursory otherwise.
On film, he's enjoyed fruitful collaborations
with Jean - Pierre Jeunet (The City Of Lost
Children,
Alien: Resurrection) and Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Blade II, the Hellboy films) and kept company
with genre eccentrics like Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter) and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead), as well as landing the role of Elvis in Don Coscarelli's long - rumored Bubba Nosferatu.
After considering such directors as Danny Boyle (then hot off of «Trainspotting»), Bryan Singer, Peter Jackson and David Cronenberg (the mind reels as to what the latter might have done at the helm of an «
Alien» film), the producers once again elected to go
with an up - and - coming talent by selecting French filmmaker Jean - Pierre Jeunet, who had caused an international sensation
with his visually stunning fantasies «Delicatessen» (1991) and «City of Lost
Children» (1995), to make his first English - language film.
Adding to tons of pop culture references (Star Wars,
Aliens, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, celebrities like Reynolds himself and Hugh Jackman) and two cameos of Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld (the latter is at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward
Children), Tim Miller tied the knot
with impressive fight choreography and a timely, mood - setting presence of Junkie XL's scores.
It looks like vintage Hitchcock at first,
with the socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) playing a practical joke of sorts on mysterious attorney Mitch (Rod Taylor) when she visits his home in Bodega Bay, but things soon turn strange when Melanie is attacked by a seagull, and then the
children at Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party (Cathy is played by Veronica Cartwright, of «
Alien» and «L.A. Law» fame) are attacked as well.
Amidst this
alien threat, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski, who also directed and co-wrote the script, along
with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck) attempt to raise their three
children on their family farm in rural New York.
Children «wind down» by designing their own planet
with aliens and labelling it.
This great booklet
with 44 pseudo (
alien) words, is ideal to help
children practise for their phonics screen check.
«One
child joined the class
with limited ability to read and almost non existent writing skills - decoding is unknown to him and at 10 years old he's finding school an
alien environment.
To cope
with these circumstances, Danny forges a reality of his own, which includes the sinister «Three Men in Black», mysterious lake creatures
with insect - like carapaces, a beautiful young seductress and thief
with whom Danny falls in love, and an
alien / human love
child who - if only Danny can keep her alive - will redeem the planet.
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I've already started experimenting
with a new middle - grade book called «Alienated» (about the only human boy in the school for
aliens at Area 51) and have involved a hundred
children in the development of the book, chapter by chapter.
This is true even if the
child's other parent is a non-resident
alien, the
child was born in a foreign country, and the
child lives abroad
with the other parent.
Those who grow up
with pets often say they benefited hugely from the experience and thrived in the environment alongside their four legged friend, yet the concept of dogs and
children mixing without trouble has become an
alien one to the media over recent years.
Earth is in a war
with an
alien race and has opened a military training academy for promising
children in space, to hone their tactical and strategic skills for the war.
You are a
child with limited resources, waking up on a distant
alien moon, twenty light years from Earth.
The game begins
with your
children being kidnapped by
aliens and you set on your journey across different levels, using one and at times all of the four different characters available to rescue them.
An unknown woman
with her
child surviving in a world destroyed by an
alien invasion.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is holding a series of emergency conference calls
with all departments and agencies of the federal government requiring them to search for and vet «properties to temporarily house [unaccompanied
alien children]» because «the need for facilities continues to grow.»
The poster
child recently for this absurdity has been the GPS system, and recently there was some clock put on a satellite which they claimed proved speed slowed down the clock, which on closer inspection showed the same wishful thinking as we note in reading the variety of models produced of an
alien world
with a cold Sun and no atmosphere passing itself off a this one — here, a real world analysis by a real world scientist blanked out by consensus:
For example, one
child rolled a cube
with an
alien face and used this to describe their parents and why they saw them in that way.
The
child did not exhibit any parental
alien - ation syndrome which is sometimes seen
with children who are shunted between separated parents in divorce situations.»
Several women made criticisms of mainstream legal dealings
with children, such as the protracted nature of legal proceedings and the difficulties in expecting young Aboriginal
children to give evidence over several years in a system and language that is
alien to them.