Word: graspingly
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Rachel Klayman as Lucienne portrays her vitally important character stiffly in the first act, but warms up in the second act when the emotions get rawer and easier to grasp. Klayman tosses away a crucial speech in which Lucienne morbidly reflects on her battle for material wealth and her discovery that wealth doesn't keep you happy or sexually fulfilled and the potential of many of Lucienne's first act lines have far more potential than Klayman uses. In the second act, however, Klayman articulates Lucienne's growing desperation effectively and brings the part back to life...
...plaisanterie in Mionnay or Lasserre in Paris. Nonetheless, Alan-Otto, trained in European restaurants, and his Anna Rozmarja, who is known as Ronnie-they are both 40 years old-run a warm and welcoming restaurant that draws regular patrons from great distances. Alan's reach may exceed his grasp, and Ronnie does not always make a perfect gâteau. But they are delighted by the Sheraton pan, hoping it will defuse their new fame. Says Ronnie, "We just don't have the energy or capacity to deal with crowds...
...Hanoi's expansion into Laos and its invasion of Cambodia did much to demolish Viet Nam's widespread image in the Third World as a brave anticolonial underdog and show it up more as an Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on becoming gendarme and ruler of all it can grasp. One mystery: How do the Vietnamese maintain that martial impulse after more than 30 years of constant warfare? Part of the answer derives from who has the upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo is divided between pragmatists who want to concentrate...
...scintallae are obscured by too much pretentious claptrap. Like the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties' Requests, the Beatles' "Revolution #9," or anything by Led Zeppelin, Public Image suffers from too much unearned self-seriousness. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp," Browning wrote, "or what's a heaven for?" Well, not for rock and roll. Sid Vicious got out in the nick of time...
...Georgia's own Democratic Senator Sam Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted...