Word: fulcrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decide what risks to take," Delaney said, adding, "we should move the fulcrum to acceptance of risk on the patient's part...
Education is the fulcrum of Jesse Jackson's domestic vision. Jackson believes that if the United States takes care of its children, then its children will take care of it. Jackson's framing of the issue differs starkly from his rivals, who see education an economic issue, a necessity if we are to compete in the world. For Jackson, education is about equity, the opportunity for all of America's young to exercise their minds...
...story bristles with shrewd ideas on topics as varied as how Shakespeare's The Tempest ought to be played (an amateur production is the fulcrum of the plot) to the role of egalitarian wartime food rationing in dismantling the old British class structure. The budding artist coolly looks on everything -- from his mother's death during World War II bombing to his own accidental hastening of an aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers...
...even greater concern is the future of two American installations in the Philippines that serve as the fulcrum of U.S. operations in the Pacific: Subic Bay and Clark Air Base. Leases on the two expire in 1991, and according to a new Philippine constitution, which is subject to a referendum in February, their continued presence will be put to a national vote...
...knew about this backstairs relationship, the suspenseful buildup of innuendoes about Serge's unnatural affection for Nicole is a theatrical trick of the worst kind, a bombshell that has no effect on the characters. We could forgive Tremblay these histrionics if he made the moment of our discovery a fulcrum, and swung the family into revealing psychological or moral perceptions. But his probing of Serge's childhood is just pablum from the Freudian stockpot. "We brought you up like a little girl," Lucienne tells Serge, and then berates him for not being gay and thereby escaping the family...