Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TANYA Selvaratnam as Medea goes full throttle with the mental illness aspect of her character. From the very beginning of the play, Selvaratnam portrays Medea as having lost it full tilt. Thus, you lose sight of the rational motivations that her character might possess...
Currently there is a sharp tilt to Social Security benefits, with lower-income workers getting a far heftier return on their payroll taxes than middle-and upper-income workers...
...high bench set for a tilt to the right...
...Park Street station, I realized that Iactually felt nervous and a little scared. Therewas a kiosk with an aerial photo-map of Boston;looking down from the air into the buildings andstreets made my stomach rise and tilt, like I wasin an elevator that had just lurched 50 stories. Ididn't want to go upstairs and face job hunting; Iwandered around looking for a musician, feelingvaguely sorry for myself. It was amazing how justimagining that I had no job depressed me; twocheerful Deadheads playing "Jailhouse Rock"finally got me upstairs...
More threatening for the government, there is evidence of growing disarray in the military. Late last week 200 uniformed members of the air force, most of them sergeants and privates, defected to the antigovernment opposition. But it remained unclear which way the country's 20 or so generals would tilt should the government press the military into heavy-handed action against civilians, as happened last month...