The ship's cooks even made items that reasonably fancy restaurants buy frozen, such as vegetable and meat stocks, which they reduced in huge tilting receptacles called Bratt pans, and bath-towel-size sheets of dough for apple strudel.
One of those issues is, of course, the question of whether we ought to have a huge tax cut tilted toward the affluent.
These two works, both diptychs, were made in 1989, just after Mr. Serra's huge 1981 public sculpture, "Tilted Arc," was removed from a dismal Lower Manhattan plaza, following an acrimonious hearing and court case initiated by people who worked in the federal office building it sat in front of.
He has tremendous courage - when we shot 'Green Zone' there's a long sustained 20 minute section at the end, in pitch black, full tilt action over huge areas with very little prep.
The 96-by-170-foot field rests on a giant concrete slab that is raised up and tilted on a huge wedge-shape base.
Yet the balance of power, and the flow of people, remain unrelentingly and inevitably tilted to the huge, rich north.So when Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, in a speech in November 2003, said that the United States saw Mexico as its patio trasero, or back yard, he believed it was nothing controversial.
Detroit keeps its factories at full tilt only by offering huge discounts and other sales incentives to "move the metal", as they say there.
In the past his huge steel forms with their ominous tilts and weights have been called aggressive, oppressive, totalitarian.
After three years when there was a huge oversupply of office space, the balance tilted last year.
Across the field stand two huge, old wooden oil tanks, one of them tilting like a smokestack on the Titanic.
