Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tailgating started years ago at Ivy League games, where alumni would serve genteel picnics from the backs of their station wagons. Cold chicken and Chablis was a typical menu. The Midwestern, professional football version is something else-a Polish polka rather than a minuet, New Year's Eve in Times Square rather than a polite dinner party for twelve. The super bowl of tailgating occurs when the Green Bay Packers visit the Minnesota Vikings. TIME Correspondent Marguerite Michaels attended one such blast in Bloomington, Minn. Her report...
...nodding off to sleep. The United States of America v. Daniel Ellsberg, Anthony Russo Jr.. which once held out the promise of a landmark debate over the public's right to know and the Government's need to be secretive, had instead turned into a tedious minuet, pivoting for the better part of twelve weeks around the strictly legal aspects of the case. Witnesses for the prosecution testified about fingerprints on the covers of the Pentagon Papers that allegedly proved theft by the defendants, and about blocks of text within that allegedly proved a breach of national...
Senate Pentagon Critic William Proxmire declares that "the Navy and Grumman are not slugging it out but doing a minuet to deceive the American public." Whether or not culpability extends that far, the hyphen that separates the military-industrial complex-the phrase that President Dwight D. Eisenhower popularized twelve years ago this month-may have grown one notch shorter...
...that so many gentle hesitations before sforzandi and cadences, in conjunction with a tempo leaning toward the slow side, tended to restrict the flow. However, these elements of rubato, although not to my taste, were part of a deliberate, introspective interpretation which never lacked coherence. The readings of the minuet and rondo were exemplary...
...those who refuse to pay all or part of their income taxes-1,740 Americans took that step last year-the Internal Revenue Service and the resisters have worked out a courtly minuet. Thus, such longtime resisters as Folk Singer Joan Baez file returns (not to do so is a misdemeanor) that fully report income (to report inaccurately is fraud). They then withhold all or a percentage of their estimated tax as "war tax credit." The IRS files a lien on their bank accounts and takes the money. Technically, this form of resistance constitutes willful failure to pay, punishable...