Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three shoestring movies tilt at the Hollywood system
...with 4.5% for Jimmy Carter and 7.2% for Richard Nixon. One aspect of the political pattern has even the Administration upset, however. Under the longstanding system of "senatorial courtesy," the President generally fills vacancies from lists provided by Republican Senators. This is one reason for the heavy white, male tilt, say Administration officials. They recently passed the word to Senate leaders that the President wants more minorities and women among the proposed names...
After the scoreless first 20 minutes, the Crimson put strong pressure on the Elis early in the second period, but Tortorella again prevailed. And after a glove save of Shayne Kukulowicz's sharp backhander at the 6.00 mark, the rink seemed to tilt the other way, and the Bulldogs took to the attack...
...Rubinstein onstage was to witness a master in his element. Striding purposefully to the keyboard while acknowledging the welcoming cheers, he would sit down, adjust the tails of his formal coat, tilt his face upward at about a 45° angle and stare intently into the middle distance as he composed himself. Then the great hands would rise from his sides and come down on the keyboard. The piano, with its intricate mechanism of strings and hammers, would cease to be a percussion instrument when Rubinstein caressed it; in his hands, it sang...
Carter's and Jordan's criticisms are a reminder that the Washington press does have an occupational tilt. Many reporters feel that any Administration has vast resources in speechwriters, press secretaries and propagandists on payroll to disseminate the party line. To counter this barrage, the press concentrates on what is being concealed, evaded or denied. Jordan might call this emphasis cynicism (seeing everything tinted by one's own crabbed view), but it can as well be skepticism (doubting, and waiting to be convinced). When press and officeholders contend, readers and viewers should be the final skeptics...