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...taped the words to her blouse as a badge of honor. Yet when a burned- out Noonan left the White House in 1986, her nemesis, chief of staff Don Regan, denied her the courtesy of a farewell chat with the President. As the real Reagan kept drifting beyond her grasp, Noonan found solace in the mythic President whom she likened to "a gigantic heroic balloon floating in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade...
...fully grasp the significance," said Davis, referring to the 25 feet the elevator travelled in bringing him to the service, "is to enter into a whole new world...
THIS amazing grasp of the whole context of a show extends to an analysis of the actors as well. He claims to know many of them personally, or at least he knows all of their relatives...
...requires a thoughtful response. As a Radcliffe graduate (1968) who has returned to Harvard determined to help expand opportunities for women and minorities here, I appreciate McDonald's values and goals. But I cannot endorse her criticism of Wilson. The charge that Wilson has failed to grasp adequately the concerns of undergraduates is as surprising as it is unjust...
Moscow's failure to grasp the potency of the ethnic antagonisms in Azerbaijan became shockingly apparent as festering tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis erupted into the worst known outbreak of violence in the Soviet Union since World War II. But what began as an ethnic blood feud quickly turned into a popular revolt against Soviet rule...