Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victories of last fall. "Irrespective of philosophy," he says, "the bottom line is who does the best job on campaigning." Moderate groups concur. The National Education Association and People for the American Way recently agreed to cooperate with local coalitions in as many as 10 states to oppose right-wing candidates. Neither side in this battle can afford to be complacent again...
...DEATH OF FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE Warren Burger was a reminder of how long the Supreme Court has been under watch for signs that the rule of its liberal wing was over: roughly, it would seem, from the day Richard Nixon named Burger to the court in 1969. For the next two decades, the liberals managed to score victories in the face of what should have been superior numbers. But even if they have lost ground slowly, they have lost it all the same. Last week as Burger was laid to rest, so too was another good bit of the Earl...
...term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly reliable four-vote liberal block--John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer--is cold comfort to those four and their supporters. Unless they can attract O'Connor or Kennedy to their side more often, the left wing of the court is in danger of becoming a vestigial organ, visible but pointless...
...states permit it. Rehnquist, O'Connor and Scalia signed on. How much further will the conservatives go? Their rulings on race, the commerce clause and church-state separation are open invitations to more litigation--and more struggles for that fifth vote. As chief guidance officer of the liberal wing, William Brennan had a famous dictum: "Five votes can do anything around here.'' Year after year, he bundled together 5-to-4 liberal majorities. In January a frail-looking Brennan sat on the sidelines to hear oral arguments in Adarand, this term's affirmative-action case. When...
...punchy music does create a fluid but vigorous medium on which the actors, many of them ballet dancers, can glide. What the tale has lost in terms of weight, it may have gained in mobility. There's a beautiful wedding fete, for instance, in which even the food takes wing, and an appealingly somber/silly march. Indeed, at times Chronicle looks and sounds positively resuscitative: this colorful show, with its percussive Latin rhythms, could be a tonic for Broadway...