Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE the many weaknesses of the Nunn plan lie in the implementation and application of a popular sentiment--giving something back to the community in return for one's financial aid--approval of the Nunn plan would represent a dramatic shift in the way we have viewed federal financial aid in the last 20 years...
...sharply at odds with Washington, which has staunchly backed the Salvadoran leader's efforts to end the nation's civil war. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the F.M.L.N. offer was "worthy of serious and substantive consideration." Privately, State Department officials were enthusiastic, lauding the proposal as a fundamental shift in rebel policy that could signal a breakthrough...
...this show I had a lot of trouble. I think I just was frightened that suddenly I had to perform as the host of my own show. I was intimidated by guests. So it took a while to overcome that. I remember at one point having a major shift of attitude. After two or three years, it didn't seem that we could do anything to improve the ratings. I can remember just feeling this frustration and despair and exhaustion, and it was kind of like -- screw it. At that point I think I was able to relax more...
...equally fine, notably S. Epatha Merkerson as Berniece and Lou Myers as the dissolute uncle Wining Boy, who leads family members in musical interludes that include a haunting, African-influenced chant. Director Lloyd Richards needs to tinker with the ending, a sort of exorcism in which a sudden shift from farce to horror does not quite work. But already the musical instrument of the title is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
...young architect she knew fell ill. "I'd never had any experience with AIDS," she recalls. "I was appalled at how quickly he became too sick to take care of himself." She and other friends formed a rotating caretaker group. But, occasionally, one would forget about his or her shift, and the dying architect went hungry until the next shift arrived. "I realized then," Brinker recalls, "that there were people throughout the city who didn't have my friend's support...