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As with Schindler's List , many reviewers celebrate Spielberg for creating a film of "emotional and moral weight" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that awakens the public to a historical tragedy.
It is spoken even in Transylvania: A beautiful girl awakens in bed to find a vampire at her side.
You were at a loss to explain the rationale for the program's selection of rattans as an alternative for awakens .
The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)
The phone ringing in my cabin awakens me; it's the conning officer on the bridge making a report of a vessel that we have in sight approximately 12 miles away.