Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressional women's rights advocates, led by Rhode Island Republican Representative Claudine Schneider, immediately announced their support for new legislation to reverse the high court. Meanwhile, most women's groups felt a major legal tool had been slapped from their grasp. If some schools now decide to cut back on non-federally funded women's programs, warned Bernice Sandier of the Association of American Colleges, "women will only be able to say, 'That's not nice instead of That's illegal...
...Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat off a Madrid sidewalk in midsummer. The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended in the air until dispersed by the boisterousness of the finale...
When Morley is spinning his fables around a core of imagery that the viewer cannot quite grasp, his real successes occur. A painting like Underneath the Lemon Tree, 1981, cannot be fully read. One knows it is about aggression: Morley's toy soldiers again, two ancient Egyptians and a modern member of the Horse Guards, plus a scrawled, emblematic castle. But what are they doing in the green space that is Morley's sign for paradise? The probable answer is that they are there because they are in the artist; the combinations of aggro-and-bother with glimpses...
...glorious it would all be. For the past two weeks, the title the one a Harvard men's basketball team has never seized--had been tantalizingly dangling just out of the cagers' grasp. And after each successive Crimson victory, it all seemed to have finally come within reach. They could feel it. They began to anticipate the sweet taste which accompanies being the best...
...deepen his understanding of the muscular frame, whose shapes determine the figure and are the key to proportion and beauty. Nowhere in his work do the scientific and aesthetic impulses twine more closely. But they grew under the shadow of disgust, and to appreciate these drawings one must grasp the difficulty of making them. The anatomist had no preservatives except alcohol and, of course, no refrigeration. For some of his deeper and more complex dissections, Leonardo would have had to spend a week or more with his nose in an open cadaver under conditions that would drive anyone else gagging...