Word: tilts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...impossible to determine, of course, whether bin Laden wanted to tilt the election, signal further attacks or simply enhance his standing in the Muslim world by showing up on global TV screens. "Take it as one possibility," said a well-placed U.S. official, that the alQaeda leader's "aim is to influence not elections but policies." He accomplished at least one thing for certain: reminding us that the winner, whoever he is, has a major piece of unfinished business to attend to. --By James Poniewozik. Reported by Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon
...Sept. 12, Howard and his contender faced each other in the campaign's televised debate. Until then, Mark Latham had struggled to gain momentum in his first tilt at the top office, but on Sept. 12 the fan of community forums found his rhythm, besting Howard with his confident, relaxed demeanor and clearly reveling in the chance to joust with the seasoned campaigner. From the debate, which most commentators awarded to him, Latham and his campaign seemed to draw new vigor, and by the time he announced Labor's key education policy later that week, the Opposition leader was shaking...
...Shrek megahits--is in the computer-generated mode. Another DreamWorks cartoon that eerily resembles the work of its competitor Pixar (Antz to match A Bug's Life, Shrek to counter Monsters Inc.), this one goes underwater, as Pixar's Finding Nemo did, but with a more urban-contemporary tilt and much less craft and heart...
...screens before, but Conran was the first to try to build absolutely everything nonhuman on the computer. It's the anti--Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with Conran leaving holes for the actors, who ran from one piece of tape on the floor to another as cameramen were instructed to tilt and rotate by exact degrees at precise moments. That, it turns out, does not make for happy cameramen, who have creative ideas of their...
...President Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, intended. They have identified Republican Senators who defied them and will do all they can to get rid of them in future primaries. And in states like Florida and South Dakota, they think they have a chance to use the issue to tilt a few Senate races this fall. They plan to introduce as many as a dozen state constitutional amendments in swing states around the country. The Senate debate was merely an opportunity to get media oxygen for this effort. It is an integral part of the Bush re-election campaign...