Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again to prove her own attractiveness and let her little world know that she has her man. If it is an expression of tenderness and caring and responsibility and mutuality it is quite a different matter. But this implies a degree of maturity, often not yet within the grasp of undergraduates...
...teammates call him "the only player in football who looks bigger with his uniform off." With all that shock power, he is still the fastest man on the team. His balance is un canny: threading through the secondary, he tricks tacklers into loosening their grasp by relaxing as if he were about to fall-then spins and spurts away. Giant Linebacker Sam Huff still mutters about a Brown touchdown last year: "He was hit by nine guys as he went into the end zone from the seven...
...drawings at the Mirski Gallery, Lebrun's massive, thick-loined human figures, often headless and otherwise distorted, alternately embrace and support each other. They seem to battle against the grasp of the deep shadows which model their limbs and torsos. The prevailing mood is Dantesque. Lebrun's style adapts excellently to his bat-winged "Lucifer" and to several smaller drawings for the "Inferno," but seems out-of-place when applied to "Two Dancers...
...that it stiffens in the sense's grasp...
...small talk, turns out a prodigious amount of work each day at the 100-man headquarters of his holding company on two rented floors in Düsseldorf. He is frequently on the phone to such key managers as Walter Hitzinger of Daimler-Benz, constantly amazes them with his grasp of intricate details...