Word: alarmingly
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...Deux Magots and Le Flore, thrive by serving up literary nostalgia to tourists; even off the beaten track, visitors still find the city bristling with humble neighborhood cafes and their newer manifestation, the wine bar. But among the natives, the statistics of decline have prompted a cry of alarm, with newspaper articles and even a television special deploring the slow extinction of le zinc. A government poll showed that 62% of the French feel cafes are an "indispensable" part of life. A festival at the Paris Videotheque inventoried 110 films centered on cafes...
...imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as any weaver's or assembly-line slave's, all in the interest of one restrained, tough, unappealing image that seems to oscillate between fear and desire, irony and alarm. There are boxes and boxes, but not many are as powerful as this...
...week ago yesterday, I awoke to the chirp of my alarm clock, stretched and wished my roommate a good morning. That is, I tried. What came out sounded more like a squeak. I tried again, and squeaked again...
...said she is happy with her decision to come to school here. "Harvard has been very supportive of me," Miller said. "They have provided me with a doorbell that flashes, a fire alarm that flashes, and an interpretive service for all my classes and swimming. I really like Harvard...
...alarm clock rings at 5:30 a.m. Nadezhda Vaktin, a 41-year-old hairdresser, heads straight for the kitchen of her family's four-room apartment in a ramshackle high-rise in the industrial city of Voronezh, 340 miles southwest of Moscow. Before the water supply goes off at 9 -- for the next 10 hours -- Nadezhda must prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner for the family of four, wash dishes and clothes and fill four buckets for drinking. Husband Alexander rushes to clean up before daughter Larisa and son Alexei commandeer the bathroom...