Word: clench
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...Sade slips into a small dressing room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively--like a baby's fist around an adult's finger--when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...Sade slips into a small dressing room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...place. Studying to save some face, with no time left to cram it in. So come on mind be nimble, thoughts be quick, lots of caffeine is the trick 'cause coffee is a student's only friend. Oh and as you turn another page, don't clench your hands in fists of rage. If you stay up past three, you still might get a B. But as you study late into the night, your heart will become filled with spite. 'Cause I saw TF's laughing with delight, the day midterms arrived...
...Gems: 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' One of the best is this Roger Miller tune, a precursor to one of Jones' biggest '70s hits, "The Grand Tour." In it, a man considers his house and its contents after his woman has hit the road. Jones is at his clench-jawed best, emoting furiously through a barely opened mouth as he looks over their house and belongings. (Watching videos from this period, Jones' lips are so close together it's amazing that any notes come out at all.) Adding to the pleasure is some excellent session work, in particular...
...anxious promoters of a start-up company, wearing their Sears suits and begging for an investment from clench-jawed venture capitalists wearing Brioni: there is a version of this scene in the founding myth of almost every tech firm from Sun Microsystems to eBay. Venture-capital financing is as embedded in the culture of Silicon Valley as integrated circuits and $750,000 tract houses. So perhaps it's not surprising that this form of financing--and its results-oriented assessment of potential investments--has made its way to the nonprofit sector...