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close encounters

n. (close encounter English)

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Close Encounters (album)

Close Encounters is the third album by Gene Page. It was produced by Billy Page and Gene Page.

Usage examples of "close encounters".

One was that close encounters between the Earth and bodies the size of Venus and Mars would also have major effects on the Moon.

He has this honking big motor home, and we travel all around the country, to the sites of famous close encounters, from Roswell, New Mexico, to Phlegm Falls, Iowa, wherever the aliens are supposed to have been in the past, we go hoping they'll show up again.

She left Close Encounters and went home, put a frozen dinner in the micro, and turned on the news.

She had even relaxed enough to stop for a drink with them now and again at Close Encounters, a fern bar across the street.

Daniel may or may not have provided pocket money in exchange for sexual favors, but she must have suspected what drove Leona to the close encounters with vodka.

Be that as it may, a lot of people are convinced that strange aliens, usually with big black eyes and pear-shaped heads like the ones in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, landed a UFO near them, loaded them on board, and took them for a flight round the solar system while carrying out weird experiments, often of a sexual nature, on them.

In this negative scenario, the boom of the 1970s will turn out to have been mainly the product of the hype surrounding the super sf movies like Star Wars and Close Encounters, plus the lemming instincts of sf editors who found themselves caught up in bidding wars.