Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago the U.S. formally served notice that it would resign from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unless the Paris-based group streamlined its bloated bureaucracy and righted its anti-Western tilt. Last week, asserting that "an unacceptable gap clearly remains," Washington made good its threat. Gregory Newell, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, announced that the U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this month. He said that the U.S. was pulling out because the organization continued to exhibit "an endemic hostility toward the institutions of a free society-particularly those...
...dared to live among them. At city hall, the confrontation is more formalized and less violent, but it continues to muck up the municipal machinery: Democratic Boss Edward Vrdolyak and his bloc of 29 city council members, none of whom are black, have only very occasionally suspended their full-tilt feud with Mayor Harold Washington and his bloc of 21, of whom 16 are black...
...Senate races provided the one swath of cheerful news. The party did not regain the majority control it lost in 1980, but the power has shifted a solid bit its way. The net gain of two seats will reduce the G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Moreover, the ideological tilt will be even greater than the simple partisan tally indicates, since the two lost Republican seats are going, in effect, to liberal Democrats. Because of the shift, the Senate is more likely to slip back under Democratic sway in 1986, when almost twice as many Republicans as Democrats will...
...that means highlighting each word and gesture so that it plays for a modern audience. In Much Ado Hands digs deep into a bag that must be marked TRICKS THAT WORK. A courtly messenger declaims his prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy...
...court drifted under Chief Justice Warren Burger in the '70s, neither truly liberal nor conservative but divided and unpredictable. Decisions often turned on one vote. But since the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor by President Reagan in 1981, many experts have begun to discern a rightward tilt. "There is a trend, but it is a slow oozing, a step-by-step process, and not a leap," says University of Chicago Law School Professor Philip Kurland. Agrees A.E. Dick Howard, a professor of law at the University of Virginia: "The 1984 Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart...