Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What were her hobbies? I told him to leave me alone. My grief was the grief of Greek tragedy, his response the verbal junk food of psychobabble. My husband, sunk in his own grief, told the "expert" to leave. He refused. My husband had to threaten to grab him by the neck and throw...
...first to go in trimming the fat from bloated production budgets. So many weak little plot lines criss-cross and entangle as surely as extension cords that we wish that one of Bannister's friends, a refugee from the 70's, would appear so that we could grab his ample lapels and shake some sense into the movie...
...agencies." A President's way of telling his bureaucrats what to do, they carry less weight than Executive Orders tend to. (The White House doesn't mind it, however, when the papers use the more stirring term.) At other times the President simply chooses to announce (and thus grab credit for) new policies coming out of his agencies, such as the Agriculture Department's new rules for meat inspection, which were served up amid fireworks and grill smoke on the Fourth of July weekend. Often he relies on simple exhortations--to local government, network executives or tobacco companies--with...
...undersea adventures. Dive! has also surfaced on the Barcelona waterfront. The Harley Davidson Cafe is hog heaven for the customer who climbs into the saddle of a Low Rider against a make-believe open road while a video camera records the moment of sublime fantasy. And if spooky things grab you, Jekyll and Hyde, a house of horrors, is the place to thrill...
Those who haven't found time to eat grab a quick "lunch," and by 5 p.m., the entire show has moved four floors down in its 499 Park Ave. headquarters to the television studio...