Word: sidestepping
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...that comes about halfway through the second act, and it is designed to remind an audience deep into digestion and plot development that there is a musical going on around here. In the otherwise hopeless movie version of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the 10:40 is called Sidestep, and it falls to that rotund and expert character actor Charles Burning. He plays a Governor of Texas known for his ability to float away from difficult issues in a cloud of obfuscating verbiage. For Burning this obviously represents the opportunity of a hard-working lifetime, and the high-strutting...
Upgrading Achievement tests also would allow colleges and ETS to sidestep the controversy over whether the SAT measures aptitude. For such "quasipolitical" reasons. Jencks suggests, universities might find it equally useful to shy away from the continually vulnerable SAT. A side benefit would be the laying to rest of the controversy over SAT coaching services. "There's nothing so alarming about coaching if you're using an Achievement test," Jencks notes. "People have been cramming for exams for generations...
ALTHOUGH HE won't admit it. Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is walking a political tightrope between conservatives and liberals over city housing policy. But for Vellucci and thousands of tenants in rent-controlled housing, there is no adequate safety net to insure against a hasty sidestep...
...time wore on, as Lach Walesa grained and workers demanded and freedom eroded some of the ugliness, hope began to rise, It started out as hope against hope, but by last fall had become almost cockiness: Solidarity had survived so many confrontations that surely it would once more sidestep the crevasse. When the inevitable happened, we of course hurt for the people of Poland, condemned as they were to who knows how many more years of grayness. But we hurt for ourselves too, became the hope that grew up around Poland was cradled at some level in this wish: that...
Sowell's reading of American history pretends to sidestep these crevices of conflicting interpretations. He claims to present the conditions that brought different immigrant populations to the New World and their adaptation to its opportunities and frustrations objectively. To a large extent, he succeeds, for what he sacrifices in passion and fury, he compensates with the conviction of his honesty. What his narrative loses in style and wit--Sowell's is a turgid, textbook monotone--he gains in clarity and precision. "The history of American ethnic groups," says Sowell, "is the history of a complex aggregate of complex groups...