Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of those words, Jack Henry Abbott, 37, had practiced that lethal sidestep on a fellow inmate while doing time in Utah state prison. He described the art of murder in one of some 1,000 letters that he wrote to Author Norman Mailer between 1977 and 1980, providing a cool but furious description of life behind bars. It was an existence filled with violence: the violence done to Abbott in roach-infested solitary-confinement cells and the violence that Abbott, long a prison incorrigible, did to others. His was a voice so choked with rage that he admitted...
Though written in a popular style, God Emperor does not sidestep moral complexity and ethical dilemma. Herbert understands that humanity needs myths and heroes to embody them. But he also knows the danger posed by those who claim to be the sole carriers and interpreters of those myths. Dune folk who subscribe unquestioningly to Leto's self-proclaimed godhood are shown as virtual automata, doomed to perish with him or to be lost without him. In Herbert's dry and gritty world, the future belongs only to those who think for themselves...
...learned not to judge Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that had swept away other Soviet leaders of his generation. Justifiably, he earned a reputation as the U.S.S.R.'s great survivor...
Despite the unwieldly nature of the topic, the writers, producers, and the cast of Leaders of Tomorrow have succeeded in bringing the school to the stage. They have wrestled the Harvard experience, thinly veiled, into episodes in the lives of five students at Ivy League University. They neatly sidestep the first pitfall of the project: defining its scope. Equally ingenious in defining its form, their answer to the theatrical question, "What is Harvard?" becomes a cohesive production of songs, dance numbers, skits and monologues...
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES don't exist. Instead, candidates agree to joint press conferences where they can answer (or sidestep) predictable and predigested questions. In these "debates" the candidates simply restate party platforms. Even the media panelists realize this sad state of affairs; they meekly protest, adding, "And could you please state specifics" to their questions...