Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep source of discouragement in contemplating these victories may lie in comparing the power of words with actions. The wars in the Falklands and Lebanon were not the only major events of recent weeks. During the time that both wars were going full tilt, the NATO alliance was meeting in Bonn to discuss disarmament. The Pope was urging peace, first in London, then in Buenos Aires. In New York City, some 700,000 people massed to offer a cry against nuclear war?the protesters a target of easy mockery for the coolly sophisticated, but 700,000 strong nonetheless...
...advisable: "They do not count as people; they are part of THEM." Advisers would never really help you select courses, "never, ever, ever." And if you insist on going to lecture and are bespectacled, you're in business: "People who wear glasses have a definite advantage because they can tilt their heads and let the light flash off the glasses. No one can see that their eyes are closed...
...order to fix the facts he loved-the blurred motion of a spoked wheel, the tilt of a catboat beating to windward, the awkward play of a naked boy's legs as he dives-Eakins produced a mass of preparatory work, in many mediums. Convinced that the camera was truth, he took photographs and worked from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade...
...only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support and expressed its full confidence in me." The British have indeed: reporting to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on his talks, U.N. Ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons described the Secretary-General as being "highly skillful...
...right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer, has little opportunity to display her talents as Warbucks' secretary. Only Carol Burnett shines, as the shabby dipso Hannigan. Navigating the orphanage at a permanent 40° tilt, like a sinking lighthouse, Burnett brings all her comic resourcefulness to a part no more demanding than those she played on her old TV show. In her hands, Miss Hannigan's malice is broad, precise, engaging, full of wicked-witch fun. The movie's malice...