Word: grabbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watch. Isadora, Bennet her husband, and Adrian Goodlove, a Laingian from England, get involved in an adulterous whirlwing in Vienna. Bennet--Freudian, careful, compulsively clean, straight, steadfast--represents Isadora's panic about being alone and about change. Adrian--Laingian, irresponsible, egotistical, clown, ass grabber--represents her hunger for the heady and exuberant in life. Isadora tries to choose between them, juggling security with Bennet against escape with Adrian, The National Book Award and the Transatlantic Ass Award. She sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when...
...18th century Japanese wood blocks, this quality lies in nuances of inking, registration and condition that are barely visible to the amateur. If Ledoux bought, say, a Utamaro, something had to be dropped from his chosen 250 to make room for it. Ledoux was a polisher, not a grabber; and as a result, any print that provably comes from his collection has enormous cachet for collectors of Japanese art today...
This is probably why The Saragossa Manuscript, the best Polish film I've ever seen, is a film one gradually works into rather than an audience-grabber. It is worth the patience: as it progresses, it entrances...
Automakers earn less profit on an ordinary compact than on a sports model, but they have found a way of cushioning the blow of declining sports sales. Ford, for example, now offers a "Grabber" model of its compact Maverick equipped with hood scoops, rallye stripes and a special paint job. It costs $175 more than an unadorned Maverick. Similarly, for $349 over the regular price, Chevrolet is marketing a "GT" version of the subcompact Vega with a black grille, racing steering wheel and sturdier wheel rims. Both models give the illusion of being fast sports cars, but beneath the paint...
...Royal Nonesuch to Cambridge. For how else do you read the self-proclaiming advertisements on the back of the program promising instruction in "exciting fall and winter drama programs featuring sense recall, blocking, animal and shower games?" And how do you take the rather timid striptease in "Hawkins and Grabber" as Steve and Joel remove (some of) their clothes in a metaphoric portrayal of psychic undress, if it's not just an attempt to provide the press agent (listed in the program as Off Beat Promotion) a saleable poster idea. No, I'm afraid for all their potential, unrealized talent...