Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mass. Propaganda Alert," a coalition of activist groups, urged a boycott of the series, criticizing its ideology as Cold War-mongering. Spokesman Tony Palomba said the group consists of seven anti-war organizations and has received numerous endorsements from local political figures and anti-war spokesmen...
Mass Propaganda Alert charges that the network prepared this series in order to satisfy persistent right-wing critics of ABC's highly successful drama, "The Day After," a speculative depiction of nuclear holocaust in Kansas. Pipes said he also believed ABC created the series as compensation for earlier productions seen as left-leaning...
...place. The lame and the careless are taken down quickly." Morrow learned the cautious local custom: while walking in the bush, warn the animals of your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow, and it worked. No lions or Cape buffalo appeared...
Later, in the sweet last light of the afternoon, a lion prowls in lion- colored grasses and vanishes into the perfect camouflage -- setting off for the hunt, alert, indolent and somehow abstracted, as cats are. A rhinoceros disappears: the eye loses it among gray boulders and thorn trees. The rhino becomes a boulder...
...particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...