Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alert! Men, there is something you can do to rectify the situation. Our social scene can be rejuvenated. The women of the campus are willing to date you. The only thing standing in your way is your courage. Call up that woman you've been eyeing across the dining hall...
...anticipating massive street dancing and street celebrations," he wrote. "[Harvard University Police Department] has been placed on high alert to keep order if necessary...
...Chasing Amy Underground-comix artists pair off, then square off in this romantic tragicomedy. He's full of sweetly uncomprehending machismo, she's gay but nervously alert to other possibilities. And auteur Kevin Smith (Clerks) has the best Gen X files in the business, full of compassionate observations on its mysterious manners and morals...
...added, "The policy goes back many years. We alert students well before their arrival at Harvard to what the policy...
...other words, words--lots of words. But Spielberg is up to their challenge. His handling of the long courtroom scenes is wonderfully alert to unsuspected visual and dramatic possibilities. Better still, he and the screenplay (credited to David Franzoni) are alive to the--yes--sometimes humorous, and therefore humanizing, struggles of the slaves and their would-be rescuers to surmount the language and cultural barriers that separate them. In our own age, with democracy travestied by ethnic- and interest-group politicking, the most instructive thing about Amistad may lie in its demonstration that broad principle, shrewdly advanced, can find ways...