Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slips of the tongue that gave different leanings to mexicons. Tales were written by the "decision tree" method used in programming computers, presenting the reader with choices. For example, Queneau's A Tale in Your Own Fashion begins, "Do you wish to hear the story of the three alert little beans? If yes, jump to 4. If not, jump to 2." Picking 4, the reader continues, "Once there were three little beans dressed in green ... if you like the description, jump to 5. If you prefer another description, jump to 9." In effect, the reader writes his own story...
Discursing economists are resigned to seeing the eyes of politicians glaze over, but Carter stayed so alert that he caught the experts in a couple of minor mistakes and raised questions about them. In terms of intelligence, Heller estimates Carter would rank among the upper 5% or 10% of graduate students in top universities. Says Okun: "What struck me is you really see an engineer's mind at work, not a peanut farmer, not a Baptist preacher, not a standard politician, but the engineering and management-science approach...
...Wolfe cry, updated to keep pace with the new scruffiness, or "Funky Chic." He insists that people's choice in clothing−down to the last epaulet or earth shoe−tells more about them than they think or may want known. Hence Wolfe constantly maintains a red alert for apparitions that everyone else has grown accustomed to overnight. He is invariably delighted with "such marvelous figures as the Debutante in Blue Jeans. She was to be found on the fashion pages in every city of any size in the country. There she is in the photograph . . . wearing...
...moved. To the very end, the entourage went through the old familiar rituals of secrecy, masquerade, and concealment. Before they removed Hughes, they reserved a suite at the Houston Methodist Hospital for him in the name of "J.T. Conover." They put a Houston ambulance on a stand-by alert at the airport for an unnamed patient "suffering from diabetes...
Despite the art's remoteness in time, today's audience will find in it the first stirrings of familiar Western styles. There is nothing alien about the playfulness of unguent jars shaped like animals with lolling tongues, or the alert grace of a gilded wooden statue of the goddess Selket, or the art nouveau traceries of floral patterns on a lamp and vase. A wooden seat is decorated with a leopard-spot design that has the startling freedom and bounce of Matisse's late cutouts...