Word: alertness
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...Carrabino, the team's pro returning scorer, in street clothes because of a pre-season injury, the cagers put on an offensive display that brought a smile to the face of Coach Frank McLaughlin. Harvard shot an amazing 63 percent from the floor, thanks to sharp passing and alert transition play...
...worst thing about Sliwa's view is that it lumps together clumps of people and labels them as less than human. A typical photo in the book, showing a white person bicycling past two Black teens, carries the caption, "Stay alert and watch out for groups of punks." Ironically, this sweeping dehumanization and stereotype reflects the very feelings that apparently helped lead to the death of an Angel last year...
...friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends to rise to even the most arbitrary occasion, and delivers without breaking the illusion...
...Mongolia. Russian tanks, trucks; soldiers. Horsemen and gingerbread houses. Stand at window on, "yurt alert" (looking out for Mongolian round tents--yurts). Ulan Bator: Woman in traditional dress sees off granddaughter in cords with tape deck. Sunset across the grasslands...
...started almost 19 minutes into the first half, when Andy Mainelli and Martin learned up for a two-on-one in the right half of the penalty circle. Mainelli drew the defender and pushed the ball to Martin, who wiggled across the goalmouth before feeding Bambi Taylor. The alert freshman tucked the ball past Maroon netminder Carol Kinsella to put Harvard on the board...