Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during one of these festivals that a cast-aluminum figure of Icarus was hung from the top of a 34-ft. vault, where it remained for many months. The symbolism was perhaps unintended, but telling. The ambitious reach of these so lar-crazed Soleri followers still far exceeds their grasp. "I only hope Arcosanti will be finished before I pass on," Jeff Charroin, 20, says earnestly. Adds Ann Whitehill: "Maybe it will never be built, because we'll probably all be blown up before then. But at least at Arcosanti, we're going down with our heads high...
...characters in Ormsby's script are stereotypes, he has endowed each of them with unusual depth. Only Makepeace's Clifford is awkward at times. He must be the wimp and the hero at once, a difficult role for any actor, and a task just beyond Makepeace's grasp. But Baldwin and Matt Dillon, as big bully Melvin Moody, are superb in roles no less difficult. As for the adults, Martin Mull and John Houseman appear fleetingly, and Ruth Gordon sticks to her tried-and-true role as a sex-hungry...
Reagan's unaccustomed role as a healer of political divisions was much in evidence at the convention. After a dozen years of ardently wooing the party, he had the nomination in his grasp, and he was not about to let the party splinter as it did in 1964. During the primary campaign, Reagan complained to reporters that they were incorrectly perpetuating "the notion that [in his films] I never got the girl in the end. In fact, I was usually the steady, sincere suitor?the one the girl finally turned...
Oddly, as the charts on his standing with both Americans and Europeans continue downward, Carter's grasp of his job seems improved in some respects. He is more angry now-at Soviet belligerence, at allied timidity. The narrowness of other nations' interests and the duplicity of their leaders are no longer smothered in Carter's determined Christian grace...
...reliant nation. Where did he fail? Personally, I think there should have been an improvement in the process of electing a President. The 18-year period he spent governing the country was really long. Toward the end, I'm afraid it became somewhat difficult for the nation to grasp some of his ideas, basic aims and the spirit of what he proposed...