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You have the strained neck, cheek and chin muscles combined with an otherwise pleasant mouth, matched with that riveted, straight-ahead stare which quickly turns space-alien when combined with those heavy black lines replacing the upper eye lids -- all this happening atop a body with an otherwise breezy, free-flowing gait.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: "Diana at 50": Newsweek's Perverse Newsstand Seance Michael Shaw 2011
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In total darkness at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico lives a creature with many scuttling legs and two wiggling antennae that jut from a pinched, space-alien face.
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When a candidate sets herself up -- and her new boss, e.g. McCain's campaign, plays on it big time -- as a family values candidate who wouldn't abort even if the kid was progeny of a space-alien who raped -- certain areas become open, necessarily, for question.
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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I think Cruise got the idea for this from everyone asking him, “So how exactly did you ‘Conjure Wife’ into buying into that space-alien religion bullshit?”
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Back in the mid-1980s, when everybody else was wearing sport coats pushed up to the elbows with pastel t-shirts underneath, or space-alien leather jackets with linebacker shoulder pads, I was wearing argyle sweaters and pleated pants that was my famous “Thin Period”, needless to say, when I could wear pleats without looking like a giant beach ball.
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A space-alien, appearing instantaneously out of the sky, would be judged a supernatural entity by many humans.
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Sometimes, Stuart posts tea-and-biscuit related art, like a portrait of "Two little old space-alien ladies having a nice sit down."
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A few centuries ago, all humans would have construed the space-alien as something divine or demonic.
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Behe has held out the possibility of a space-alien midwifing the orgin of life, but this crack, on his part, seems EXTERMELY cynical.
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Dietrich sat at his desk, on the corner of which stood a small, green statuette -- a fanciful rendering of a grade-B movie space-alien, replete with ray gun and eyestalks.
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