Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAT THE WORLD HAS O.D.'ED ON O.J., I cannot wait for the next macabre episode to grab the public's fascination. Will it be another serial killer, government scandal, celebrity crime? What will the media dish out for us next? ROBIN KALMEK, Grahamstown, South Africa...
...Amanda be more than a grab bag of weaknesses? Poor trite thing: she's bored by Lenny's name games and love play. She insists on adopting a child, then all but ignores him. ("I'm the boss," Lenny insists to Max. "Mommy's only the decision maker.") And she cheats on Lenny before he can on her. Her dalliance is a betrayal; his is a quest. Once again Allen's take on marriage is biased and bleak; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned may finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. They achieve...
...needs to fill out the march's ranks. The ministers, perhaps more than their flock members, take issue with Farrakhan's derogation of other ethnic groups, his demotion of black women to a secondary position and his sometime disdain for Christianity itself. Many see the march as a power grab, noting that until Chavis belatedly came on board, it was an all-Muslim enterprise. Said the Rev. Bennett Smith Sr., president of the 2.5 million-member Progressive National Baptist Convention: "If you are going to invite me to ride on your airplane, don't send me a ticket after...
This, one might have thought, would have been enough to make Copley grab a berth on the next ship to London. He did nothing of the sort. At 28 he was already the one big fish in Boston's tiny cultural pond. In London he would have been a sprat in a sea of talent. So he hung back for nine more years, until 1774, and left only when the riots and disturbances that presaged the American Revolution threatened to ruin his market...
Some children grab for the treat the minute he's out the door. Some last a few minutes before they give in. But others are determined to wait. They cover their eyes; they put their heads down; they sing to themselves; they try to play games or even fall asleep. When the researcher returns, he gives these children their hard-earned marshmallows. And then, science waits for them to grow...