Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...count on it. And don't count on Allen for much sympathy for Lee or anyone else caught up in this game. This is a coldly mocking film, alert to the fact that politicians under investigation are still welcome at celebrity golf tournaments; that famous authors, abetted by their editors, can steal unfamous authors' ideas with impunity; that skinheads, rabbis and lawyers from the A.C.L.U. can grouse together affably in the greenroom about who ate up all the bagels before going out to scream at one another on a TV talk show. These people all know that what they share...
...supplement without citing any specific medical benefits. Until formal studies are conducted, those restrictions will stand. Even without a government green light, however, kava will probably remain popular, sold as an antianxiety herb that dare not call itself that. "People like the idea of feeling mellow but staying alert," says Blumenthal. "That's what kava does." The question is, At what cost...
...artist who looked so unpromising at first attain this clarity, strength and command of scale? Not easily, and it is very much to the show's credit that it includes failures and partial successes along with the works that incontestably come off. It makes you more alert to the risks Pollock took. There were no rules for what he was doing; the besetting danger was always overcongestion of the surface, so that no air was left between the marks and the energy he strove to transmit clogged...
...must be said that Kingsolver's men are less interesting. One male African teacher, in particular, is so patient and virtuous that he seems--cultural bias alert here--almost Christlike. Perhaps that is because unlike the women, whose thoughts we hear, the men are observed only from the outside. It is also true that the novel's second half is subdued in tone. The author has made her point, and the rest is told almost as afterword. The rapacious Mobutu Sese Seko is in power, thanks to U.S. influence. And the Price women, their calamitous adventure mostly behind them...
Grizzly-war alert: Later this month the U.S. government is expected to unveil a plan that could eventually lead to the removal of this Yellowstone-area resident from the "threatened" list under the Endangered Species Act. Federal officials say protection of the 400 or more grizzly bears in the region where Wyoming meets Idaho and Montana has been a success, and that under ESA rules, the animals are no longer threatened. A final decision won't come before next summer, but in preparation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finishing a plan for turning bear management over...