Word: grasping
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...Dallas are the league's two most exciting teams, playing an up-tempo, international style with lots of movement and passing. It's a welcome departure from the NBA's one-on-one isolation game, in which eight men are mere spectators on many plays. Thanks to their firm grasp of the fundamentals, "foreign players have added the skill factor back into the game," says Kings head coach Rick Adelman...
...siecle Symbolism. Both men were coming to grips with Cezanne and the means by which he represented space--with shallow patches of pigment that create the illusion of depth but still assert themselves as smears of pigment on the surface of the canvas. Matisse was the first to grasp its implications. But Picasso would drive further into them...
...There is at least one more reason we grasp for the common experience of sadness. Tragedy, and specifically the shuttle disaster, with its epic scope and spectacular visuals, brings us together in a way very few things do these days, says Dr. Robert Butterworth, a psychologist and bereavement specialist. "There are so few places left in our society where we can agree, where we're not debating and fighting with each other," he says. This kind of universal loss transcends divisions established by politics or religion, he adds, and unites us in our grief. We've all experienced this strange...
...would appear that singer BOBBY BROWN fails to grasp some of the finer points of the legal system. When a judge forbids you to leave the state of Georgia, it is generally not a good idea to skip town. It is a still worse idea to perform on a nationally televised awards show being broadcast from Los Angeles. In November Brown, the husband of Whitney Houston, was ordered to stay in Georgia pending his trial for a 1996 drunken-driving charge in Atlanta. But last week he appeared onstage at the American Music Awards with rapper Ja Rule singing...
...President's proposal to eliminate double taxation on stock dividends is a magnum opus of confusion. Want proof? It took Wall Street nearly a week to grasp one of the plan's most fundamental notions: shareholders would be no better off tax-wise with companies that pay a dividend than with those that do not. Still sinking in: dividend investors might even be hurt in the short run because the Bush plan makes it silly to own such stocks in tax-favored accounts, where most people invest...