Word: askew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prophet. He's just a regular guy who speaks his mind. Most people never get to meet their heroes, and when they do they are usually disappointed. That's because they look too high and too far away. All I did was a look a little bit askew, and I found a spaceman who earned my vote for President...
...this building," Clark proclaims, "everything emanates and ultimates from me. Nothing happens without me." He spots a sign hanging askew over the girls' rest room: "I want that fixed expeditiously," he snaps at a bemused janitor. Attempting to enter a classroom, Clark finds a locked door, rattles the knob; and when the teacher opens, he bluntly orders her to undo the lock. Her response is too slow for Clark: "I said, unlock that door!" he snaps, right in front of her pupils. Clearly, this is a man who believes that if something is wrong, get tough about...
...been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson thrust the audience into a world askew, and the force that has caused the upheaval -- the dizzying, delirious and dangerous power of passion -- has not much changed from the Greek world...
...such as Father Knows Best, were as much earnest morality plays as laugh-out-loud comedies, and groundbreaking sitcoms like All in the Family and M*A*S*H demonstrated more than a decade ago that TV comedy is not incompatible with social commentary. Still, genre labels seem especially askew these days. Bruce Willis won this year's Emmy Award for lead actor in a drama series for Moonlighting, a show patterned after Hollywood's breezy romantic comedies of the 1930s. Michael J. Fox was named best actor in a comedy for Family Ties, whose most celebrated segment last season...
That anti-Government mood prepared the way for Reaganomics and drove a wedge between the poor and the middle class. Americans in the middle detected something askew in the Government's social policies. Reagan played upon the middle-class intuition that some basic unfairness was loose in the garden of the dream. (Reagan was wise enough to know that the dream existed still and needed tending...