Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began in 1981, was justified on much narrower grounds: to cut off the flow of arms from Nicaragua to rebels in El Salvador. The statements by Shultz and Reagan last week are simply a "more realistic expression of policy," explained a senior State Department official. "If there is a shift, it is in going from saying 'No, the downfall of the Sandinistas is not what we want,' to saying 'Fine, if that's what happens...
...next shift, Janfaza took a hit and went down hard with a separated shoulder. What had started out as a storybook first game for Janfaza ended in disappointment for the Natick, Mass. native, when he learned that the injury would keep him out of the lineup for at least two weeks...
...apartheid are part of an entire civil theology and political culture of race separation wherein the hereditary Afrikaaners often refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate. Far from warming to reforms in apartheid, white South Africa threatens a violent backlash...
Both ballets are casual, debonair and refreshingly free of pretension. Gordon, whose own Pick Up Co. uses dialogue as well as tapes and movement in performance, manages to shift smoothly into the more formal vocabulary of classical ballet. Field, Chair and Mountain is set to a noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like...
...both countermen and customers are quick to point out that their rudeness is usually reserved for uncontrollably rude customers. Although Tommy says he tells all his employees not to take abuse from anyone, they are subjected to a lot of it each shift. "They're really nice people," says Soroush R. Shehabi '87 of the countermen. "Snotty kids come in here when those guys are working hard. You can understand their response--they have a dismal life...