Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggle with the Gang of Four: I let the Gang of Four grab my tail and give me a sound flogging. Perhaps you comrades would say that it was Chairman Mao who relieved me of my former jobs and dismissed me from office. As a matter of fact, it wasn't so. I would rather call it a decree of fate. Chiang Ch'ing used to laugh at me, saying that my head was bullet-shaped and couldn't wear official headgear securely ... As long as class struggle exists, there will be persons like the Gang...
THERE'S SOMETHING MYTHICAL about the daring crook who manages to pull off the perfect heist. From England's great train robbers to the parachuting D.B. Cooper, these characters usually grab public attention for a few weeks on the front pages, and then pass quietly into the annals of folk-mythology...
Dales, one of those rare breed of natural golfers who can grab a club out of the woodshed and start to play flawless golf, caught his drive absolutely flush on the first tee. On the other hand, Fitzgibbons, who is a slow starter, hit a tee shot that followed the trajectory of a partridge stricken in mid-flight by the hunter's shaft...
...University Hall, a few left-over torches burning down after the year's most spectacular protest march; the bemused set to the jaws of the University policement covering the demos, unsure of how to handle these kids who, they were told but did not quite believe, might try to grab a building at any minute. But then the show ended, reading period stepped up, and it was over. The demonstrators did not get what they wanted, harvard did, and then it was time for burial in Lamont. Reading period can do that...
...Monto? There's Cat Stevens for those mellow, I-might-be-depressed-soon times, and there's the Stones and Geils for the other times, but Pronto Monto falls somewhere in the middle. You have to listen to this album, because the emotional and musical jumps reach out and grab your attention. A year older, Kate and Anna talk of new loves, but their music moves just the same...