Word: shifting
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...this for Hannibal Rising: it's better than Baby Looney Toons, Young Indiana Jones or The Phantom Menace. But it certifies a radical shift in Harris' attitude toward Hannibal that was first evident in the last book and nearly consumes this...
...Whatever the reasons, Harris wants to shift the audience's take on Lecter from horrified fascination to pity, or sympathy, or empathy. Hannibal Rising is his most explicit defense: not guilty by reason of insanity, with its roots in a childhood trauma...
...tallest player in the Blackbirds’ rotation is 6’7—LIU committed its defensive resources to plugging the middle, routinely getting guards to shade towards the interior and give help when the ball got deep. That left the outside open, and not even a shift from 2-3 zone to man-to-man defense when Goffredo was in the game, a sign of respect for the Crimson’s senior marksman, prevented him from getting more good looks than usual. “They were definitely sagging off me when...
...President whom the military ousted and probably killed, hardly shared Pinochet's bloodlust; but his government had indeed run Marxist-amuck by 1973. The economy was in state-run free fall and radical but influential leftist groups were calling for (if not already trying to carry out) an armed shift to Cuba-style communism. Pinochet always asserted that he was not part of a coup but a "civil war." In that sense, Pinochet maintained until his death that he had "saved" Chile...
...irresistible coinage: "cha cha," short for charter change, has become the Philippines' preferred catchphrase for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's push for a constitutional amendment that would shift the nation from an American-style bicameral legislature to a single-house parliamentary system. But political wrangling over the proposal is looking more like a rugby scrum than a pas de deux...