Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pants design [Feb. 1] is an obvious and frenzied subterfuge on designers' part, aimed at further discrediting short fashions and finally establishing the stillborn midi, thus maintaining fashion's faltering and sweaty grasp on the American dollar. Even TIME'S pictorial couldn't save the attractive girls from the jellied-thigh look. The love for the greasy till has produced yet another fumble...
...marriages; his preoccupation with the small town mind; the constant dualities of vision: the stylistic brilliance, the quick substitutions of abstract for concrete; the sweeping flights, within single phrases, from the commonplace to the sublime (Hemingway's brains are "scattered now in every atmosphere"); metaphors that reach out and grasp every aspect of common experience; and the quick observations that outgun entire works of lesser writers (as when Frank McGee is described as having "a personality all reminiscent . . . of a coach of a rifle team"). As usual, Mailer's observations are passionate rather than considered, emerging from the heat...
...slow and painful night. And although one watched the parade of speakers closely, it was easier not to listen to their words. The usual repulsion one felt when faced with this country's atrocities, the usual outrage in discovering the government to be wrenched form our grasp, were both there. But a new hatred had entered the picture. A hatred of each other for not seeing "the obvious solutions" with equal clarity...
Southern Californians have grown almost blase about their recurrent forest and brush fires, flash floods and mud slides. Indeed, some were able to grasp their Bloody Marys on the morning after last week's disaster and joke about their survival. Yet there is something singularly shattering to the serenity of nearly all humans when the ground moves; the earth is, after all, everyone's womb and tomb. So the forecast of worse quakes to come troubled even calamity-conditioned Californians as they slowly cleared the debris and tried to forget the terror that had started at dawn...
Henson was in complete control and way ahead in points when Metzger attempted an escape by rolling out of Henson's grasp. Henson, the stronger of the two, held on. After two and a half sommersaults. Metzger found his entire body supported vertically by his own neck. Three seconds later at 4:58 the bout was over...