Word: tacking
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Stone wrote well and often solved problems with a “creative” tack, McGovern says...
...first involves staging the production in a novel space, giving way to an As You Like It on the beach or Hamlet in the actual ruins of Elsinore. The second, or conceptual tack, applies an external theme to the play’s framework, leading to Richard III in fascist Italy or Romeo and Juliet at a post-apocalyptic rave. The third posits some new interpretation of a character that flows against the traditional grain, allowing a lovable, misunderstood Iago or a courageous, bloodthirsty Hamlet. Hyperion’s current version of Macbeth takes both the first and third avenues...
...student initiative for Asian-American studies is taking a similar tack...
...some say the current tack groups have taken—working separately for similar causes—is partially a result of wariness that working together will undermine the possibility of attaining their respective goals...
UMass would tack on one more off of freshman Lauren Tanner to make it 9-3 before closing out the game...