Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is that they do lie. Bulimic and anorexic women grab hold of these myths because physical control is more readily attained than emotional control. Psychiatrists will tell you not to discuss food or appearance with these women, because doing so only encourages the illusion that appearances are all, and that the female psyche is negligible in that context...
...players occupy a slightly higher moral ground, though only in comparison with their unspeakable employers. Given the way they have been lied to and cheated by the owners in the past, the players would argue, why should they not grab all the gusto they can now? No reason, really, except the danger that they will besmirch their livelihood in order to enrich...
During a question-and-answer session, Fitzgerald offered aspiring actors some advice: "When the moment comes that you can get in [a company,] you should grab...
Stories of seemingly miraculous recoveries may grab the public's attention, but the real work is being done quietly and out of sight. In laboratories around the world, medical researchers are exploring the mind-body connection, separating myth from reality, intuition from fact, belief from science. Much of this work centers on the actions of neuropeptides, molecular messengers that travel through the body linking the nervous, immune and endocrine systems. In the 1970s neuropharmacologist Candace Pert at the National Institute of Mental Health found that these peptides bind to receptors on a cell, beginning a cascade of biomedical effects, including...
MICHAEL PENN: MARCH (RCA). Surprise. Here's a homage to the playful high seriousness of Beatles music that sounds workably modest, modern and personal. Penn (yes, he's got an actor brother named Sean) takes a while to find his footing, but once he does, tunes like Big House grab hold...