Word: kilter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rachel, 28, wanders around Los Angeles wearing sunglasses, one sneaker, a stained sweatshirt, baggy jeans. She is bright, well-read and terribly out of kilter. "I need to be in a normal situation around normal people," she says. One moment Rachel is cogent and socially deft, the next she is twitchy and incoherent. "I just want to be out in the forest by myself. I want people to leave me alone, so I tell them I'm O.K. and go my own way. But I get a block away and lose it. I freak...
...drought and torrid temperatures quickly threw that forecast off kilter by at least 1 billion bu. The harsh weather arrived just as the corn was entering its crucial tasseling stage and kernels were starting to form. Now cornstalks are dying weeks ahead of schedule, as much of the farm belt's normally rich, brown soil is becoming increasingly yellow and cracked. Says Larry Quandt, who raises corn and soybeans in southern Illinois: "If the drought lasts any longer, it's going to be an extremely rough year...
...Colonel Henry Blake in the television show M*A*S*H, a staple of his wardrobe was to be a purple Northwestern sweater with a white N. But the colors glared on-camera; the sweater had to be dyed blue; the N was chopped down to an off-kilter and dyed orange. Suddenly it was an Illinois sweater. Poor Northwestern...
...recent years two forces have thrown the system out of kilter. One is the outdated Government index known as "parity." Its purpose is to make sure that milk retains, relatively speaking, the same value in 1981 that it had before World War I. Improvements in dairy technology have now boosted productivity dramatically, but the rickety parity index has never been updated, causing the price of milk to stay artificially high...
...show is funny, nonetheless. Director Grey Cattell Johnson has captured every drop of Moliere's satirical venom, and the spring of his theatrical tension is wound tightly. As the play opens, Marianne prepares to marry her beloved Valere. Plans are thrown out of kilter by Tartuffe, a hypocrite whom Marianne's father, Orgon, has decided that Marianne should wed Tartuffe instead of Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature...