Word: clench
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...wasn't all sweetness and klieg lights. I was always thirsty. I was often hungry. When I walked down the street I would involuntarily clench and unclench my fists, as if I were the Thing. I woke in the wee hours so often I no longer bothered to wake my husband to tell him about it. And Ritalin made my toes hurt. O.K., technically it was the wall I was kicking that made my toes hurt. I was trying to get my kids downstairs to school, and they were moving with the speed of treacle on asphalt. This is their...
...insights into the subtle direction of actors, watch as Larry Wachowski gives cues to star Keanu Reeves, suspended on wires for a fight scene, in a manner Ingmar Bergman may never have considered: "Head jerk. Then thrashing. Then a big thrash. And another one. Then clench. Tighter...
...best and the worst from their participants. Bruises, black eyes as well as the proverbial blood, sweat and tears: all serve as testimonies to the raw passion that fuels many IM participants, those desperately grappling for that 100 points that will edge out an opposing dorm and clench the Yard Bucket or Straus Cup. This fearless dedication to the game is a major motivating force for Laurence Tai ’06. However, his sport of choice is not played on a court or a field. Rather, Tai’s is consumed with his position...
Brace yourself, kids. Grit your teeth and clench your fists. Your relatives have traveled across oceans and continents for your graduation ceremony and, at several points during the first week of June, they will embarrass you. Especially your grandparents. They will fuss over you and ask you if you’ve eaten and tell your roommates stories about that time when you were little and got sick from eating paste. They’ll brag about all the wonderful things you’re doing after graduation and tell anyone who will listen that you’re going...
...plenty of war heroes on the screen these days - Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, even Josh Hartnett is killing bad guys in a theater near you. The Gulf War brought you Norman Schwarzkopf, talking a good war for the news cameras; in this war your media hero is steely-eyed, clench-jawed Donald Rumsfeld...