51.   Both those movies were adapted from novels written by James M. Cain, a hard-boiled, dime-store existentialist who wrote about little men who lose control.

52.   A group from Ontario hopes to prove this in controlled conditions by inducing the sensations of being snatched by little green men.

53.   A good little man in basketball always thinks he can get a shot off against a lumbering big man.

54.   After five difficult weeks, the little man had grown into a monster that was threatening to consume a season.

55.   After all those days of being little men, they were children again.

56.   Afterward, the little man with the big sleeping bag ambles uptown, stopping to watch the Dallas Cowboys, his favorite team, through a picture window.

57.   All the local beds were taken by people seeking the truth about little green men.

58.   All eyes were on the muscular little man in the burgundy and gold of Golden Eagle Farm.

59.   All that waiting, and the dreary little man has let us down.

60.   Burton turns the little green men with the huge heads into comically cool, cartoony puppets, who fire toy ray guns that zap people into gaily colored skeletons.