Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third, Leah, works as a ground hostess for El Al), nine grandchildren and a few old friends, but no one else. He spends his days reading and talking on the telephone, which he often answers himself. An Israeli diplomat who recently called his home found him well informed and alert...
...unforced understanding of how clan loyalties work, a bemused acceptance of corruption as a natural part of New York City's municipal style, and a sharp sense of how Irish and Italian ethics and ethnics mesh to mutual advantage and grind to mutual exasperation. In Rourke, with his alert inwardness, and Roberts, with his burbling extraversion (as opposed to his work in Star 80 as it is possible to be), he has a dream team, actors capable of suggesting unwritten levels of intimacy in the film's central relationship while maintaining a strong, easy and persuasively naturalistic stride...
...wait for the final results to announce a series of austerity measures last week, including a 28.6% de facto devaluation of the peso, designed to meet International Monetary Fund conditions for a new loan to the heavily indebted nation (total: $25.6 billion). The President also placed Manila on alert and had checkpoints set up in the wake of two fires and the murder of a police general...
Most guidebooks, claims Wurman, "ghettoize information," putting hotels, restaurants, shopping, museums, nightclubs and other attractions in separate sections. By contrast, Access guides note them as an alert pedestrian would, door by door, block by block. To make sites easier to spot on the page, they are color-coded (red for restaurants and nightlife, green for parks, and so on) and profusely illustrated. The exquisitely limned maps are models of graceful lucidity...
...Always alert to what is new, Wurman continues to think originally about how each book should be done. The new guide to New Orleans was published this year in time for the fair. A TV Viewer's Guide to the Los Angeles Olympic Games sold 4 million before it even went to press; Portuguese-and Japanese-language editions of the TV Olympic guide are also available. In the fall a Tokyo sourcebook will be bilingual...