Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title, then his freedom. Nor is Pu Yi personally attractive; he can be both toady and bully. "He's not a sympathetic character," says Screenwriter Mark Peploe, who is Bertolucci's brother-in- law. "I resisted even trying to understand him when I wrote the script." But any alert viewer can understand the wrenching dislocation of a child who is virtually kidnaped into royalty, raised by thieving eunuchs and condemned to a sham monarchy in a lifelong series of ever smaller Chinese puzzle boxes. The Last Emperor is a metaphor for the prisons we are born in and the prisons...
...Harvard does not have an organized teaching assistant association as does Yale, graduate students may bring any problems they have before the student-faculty Committee on Graduate Education, Fox says. Right now, there are no issues before the committee, he says, but he adds, "We always try to be alert to the needs of every...
...remaining on a state of alert to be ready for anything that may happen," he added, and soldiers are "constantly patrolling the area...
Reacting to Salvucci's unexpected proposal, North Cambridge activists recently held a community meeting entitled, "North Cambridge Neighborhood Alert." At that meeting, and at a City Council hearing a few days later, many neighborhood residents fiercely criticized both the impact and the planning process of the Secretary's proposal...
...That part of the Cambridge community will be split in two by the elevated highway," said Ed Cyr, a resident who organized the North Cambridge Neighborhood Alert meeting...