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Word: grasps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership of the grizzled elder Galvano (Omero Antonutti), decide to break away from the huddled, frightened villagers and march out to grasp liberation rather than waiting for it timorously...

Author: By Jeen-christophe Castelli, | Title: Italian Fireworks | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...wasp] was sucking jam on my plate and I cut him in half. He paid no attention merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam trickled out of his severed verged esophagus. Only when he tried to fly away did he grasp the dreadful thing that had happened...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Cluttered Truths | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...application procedure requires a student director to have done any research into either the literary or theatrical tradition behind his own play. Drama committees do an injustice to the director, his future cast, themselves, and ultimately to the audience, by leaving to hope and chance the director's conceptual grasp of a playwright's text, so essential to a solid, focused production. Not that a director hopeful should submit a 10-page tome along with his or her application. Neither should any director be confined to mechanically figuring out the playwright's intentions and them staging them...

Author: By Patricla S. Bellinger, | Title: Staging an Idea | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

...still sailing high after winning the prestigious Cowles Cup earlier in the season for which he had to beat teammate Jernigan in the finals to win. Jernigan and Boyum have been switching back and forth in the one and two positions, though Boyum has kept a firm grasp for the past three weeks...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: The Team to Beat | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

...Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The Reagan Administration [is] ripping itself apart. . . the President and his closest associates seem to lack the political energy and the grasp of detail required for a mid-term renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Those Low Mid-Term Grades | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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