Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come to mind--the Agamemnon family especially--because one feels that their disasters can only be the result of some terrible curse. It's all nonsense and superstition, of course. But this is what happens when "frail thoughts dally with false surmise" about people and events too big to grasp. The Kennedys instill thoughts beyond reason in reasonable people...
...Here comes the learning part. "She has a wonderful, wonderful grasp of dialogue, but something struck me as slightly improbable," says Lindo. "She said to me, 'There you are on the screen and I respect you, and you step off the screen and come here and criticize my work, and it hurts...
...made lots of friends. I did color in the radio booth with John Rodgers, who explained how Cedar Rapids was a city of five seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall and "time," which they always make sure to enjoy. I think of Cedar Rapids as the city with a poor grasp of the word season...
Life behind the scenes has its merits, I suppose, but deep down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...
...abnormal contraction of the pupil. Each of the exhibition's elements presses the point that we turn away blindly, deafly from the violence in our American house; we refuse to comprehend it. Yet her recondite Braille and phonetic whispers work too well perhaps: she leaves viewers with little to grasp easily. When a visual work rests so heavily on literary means, its impact is inevitably blunted...