Word: treads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their part, the Democrats are not likely to pick fights right after the 100th Congress convenes in January. They know all too well that if they disagree with Reagan on a key issue, the popular President can take his case to the American people. The Democrats will tread carefully to avoid getting blamed for unpopular revenue increases or budget decisions. "They're in charge," says White House Aide William Ball, "and they're going to have to be accountable." A.E.I.'s Ornstein believes that the new majority has learned some lessons from the past. "The Democrats will not want...
...band by saying, "Just because you say you love pop or rock or whatever it's called, that doesn't exclude liking other kinds of things." He says the True Stories score is "pop songs, and, for us, it sounds fairly conventional," but it might be best to tread a little carefully here...
...while still carrying the sky or grass of the background--quote Magritte with an almost naive directness. True, Rosenquist could not be less interested in the literary and sexual side of surrealism, but the way disconnected images have always floated together in his work (the duck's head, tire tread and huge cropped face in Silver Skies, 1962; the immense rashers of bacon, their fat glistening among the stars, in Star Thief ) does not come only from America...
...basis of sex. In its most difficult advance into new territory, it ruled that women have a right to abortion. "This court has moved into areas the Warren Court never came near," says American University Law Professor Herman Schwartz. Yet when it moved, it was typically with a lumbering tread, tilting and veering with the shifts of the Justices at its center: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered as one in which the centrists played the crucial role as swing votes in a court that was always swaying. But durable voting...
...destitute themselves. Along the way: concerts, frat parties, even a couple of weddings. Everyone wanted to get in on the act: a group of lifers at New Jersey State Prison in Rahway generously offered to line up across the Arizona desert--where less toughened participants feared to tread--but in the end their compassion only got them a spot in the handholding line across the prison yard...