Word: hewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kerry's other domestic positions hew more closely to the line of the national ticket, as he supports the Equal Rights Amendment, federal funding for abortions, and equal pay for comparable work...
Western Europe's biggest Communist party (1.7 million members) thus served notice that it would continue to hew to Berlinguer's "Eurocommunist" line, polishing its democratic image and keeping Moscow at arm's length. Natta has supported Berlinguer's advocacy of what is known as the "historic compromise," the idea of a coalition government between Communists and Christian Democrats. He is considered practical rather than creative, professorial rather than charismatic. In opting for Natta the party passed up a number of candidates with a popular following, each of whom would have given his own stamp...
...high notes, but down low it is rich and round. As he throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest, in a word...
Foxfire. Those who hew to goodness and revere the customs of their forebears are rarely met with on a New York stage. Here they are in this tale of Appalachian tenacity, fashioned by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn. And who better to memorialize their griefs and joys than Cronyn and Jessica Tandy? Good. How does a liberal-minded German classics professor become Eichmann's right-hand man at Auschwitz? In C.P. Taylor's play, the gifted Alan Howard makes the insidious slope to hell plausible and harrowing...
Theoretically, the Administration was correct to hew a neutral line between Iran and Iraq, but changing circumstances call for a defter touch than the U.S. has displayed thus far. Says Richard Helms, a former U.S. Ambassador to Iran (and onetime head of the Central Intelligence Agency): "Now is the time to come to the aid of our moderate Arab friends...