Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to present Dubuffet as one of the four truly important figures of postwar European art -- along with Giacometti, Bacon and Beuys -- the Hirshhorn has taken the right tack, for it's the early work that justifies the claim. Dubuffet came to art late. Until 1943, when he turned 41, he had been a businessman, a wine merchant. His career illustrates the energy that a late flowering can produce, both in art and in its attendant ideas. Dubuffet is, of course, widely known for his espousal of what he called Art Brut, or "raw art," the work of those untutored...
...almost three years of economic sanctions have not led the Iraqi people to rise up against Saddam Hussein. His people fear him; some hate him and ardently wish for his death. But there are no signs of destabilization within the regime. So why has the Iraqi regime changed tack? Sheer exhaustion, it would seem. While Saddam's hold on power appears secure, his subjects are hungry, his weapons of mass destruction are dismantled, and his economy is a shambles. "They just don't have the ability to retaliate," says a diplomat. "If they didn't blow up planes and embassies...
While most American doctors continue to tell parents that there is little they can do to prevent SIDS, health authorities in Europe, New Zealand and Australia are taking another tack. Citing studies that show dramatic reductions in the incidence of crib death, clinicians are telling parents that they should place healthy, full-term babies to sleep on their back instead of their stomach...
...over his stimulus package he had blithely ignored two months ago, dooming it to defeat. Breaux has now become the President's ally in getting his economic plan through the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats hold only 11 out of 20 seats. Just as liberals bemoan Clinton's new tack, the Louisiana Senator applauds it. At home last week, as he rode along in his white van toward a forum at H.L. Bourgeois High School in Gray, Louisiana, an electric razor in one hand and a phone in the other, Breaux declared his conviction that the President's acknowledgment...
...aide suggests, "is to adopt ((Louisiana Senator)) John Breaux's prescription." Breaux is trying to live up to the injunction of Clinton political adviser ) James Carville, who preaches that a lasting turnaround in Clinton's fortunes depends on rediscovering "what we're about." In other words, Clinton has to tack back to the center; he has to embrace, in law, the proposals that got him elected in the first place. Breaux understands the public's antipathy to taxes of any kind and, for openers, wants the President's $71 billion energy tax to be cut in half. (The shortfall would...