Word: alertness
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...parliament, dominated by Muslim fundamentalists, voted by an overwhelming majority to impeach Banisadr for "incompetence." His fate is now up to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Meanwhile, as his own supporters met the mobs in bloody combat, Banisadr dropped out of sight, and border and airport police were on the alert to prevent him from fleeing...
...first time, he has an indestructible charm. Another comedian might grow desperate in such unpromising circumstances. Not Pryor. The easy subtlety of his glances and gestures, never too big, always wonderfully readable, almost convinces one that something worthwhile is happening here-or is about to. One remains alert to his possibilities. And wishes that the people who make his pictures would try to attain a similar state...
Blake and Spielberg caution that this test will not alert investigators to all drugs with the potential for causing birth defects, only to those that form toxic metabolites. But they think their work could help researchers design more reliable experiments. For example, if a test shows that a .particular drug forms a toxic metabolite in humans and rabbits, but not, say, in dogs, then by a process of elimination rabbits would be designated the appropriate species for future birth defect studies related to that drug...
...would perhaps be truer to the rueful mood he tries to establish. One feels he is sometimes easing away from the tougher implications of his tale. There is also an empty prettiness to his shooting, especially in the transitions from season to season. Still, American movies are rarely as alert as The Four Seasons is to the tensions implicit in friendship, to the social conventions by which people try to control the anxieties of ordinary life, and one cannot help responding warmly to the good work of an obviously decent man. -By Richard Schickel
...response to these attacks, and to heavy artillery duels with the Israeli-backed Christian forces under the command of Major Sa'ad Haddad, Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian guerrilla forces to go on full alert. At midweek, he summoned Arab ambassadors in Beirut to describe Israel's actions in southern Lebanon as "systematic genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese people...