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...could play those four chords. That's why hip-hop has taken off, because you don't have to be a virtuoso, you just have to have great taste. You have to be able to hear it more than you have to be able to play it. Suddenly, the grasp becomes more important than the reach. Suddenly, a bunch of kids from the north side of Dublin who would never have had a chance to get on the musical merry-go-round watched it stop for just long enough to jump on. We were a band before we could play...
...decides to use the old distract-and-attack method; he points somewhere and shouts, “Look!” The ploy works, but since Jack is on the other side of the bed from Ruth, he is forced to execute a flying dive in an attempt to grasp her in his arms. The attempt fails and he lands on the bed in frustration...
...This is about whether Cherry can understand the charges against him. Let's say, for example, he's developed Alzheimer's and has no grasp of what's going on around him. He would have absolutely no understanding of what was happening at the trial...
...Klan affiliations and the unaccounted-for nights he spent "at one of his civil rights meetings." But when she finally confronted him, he admitted that he had not been deeply involved with the Klan because "I would have had to kill people." Writes McWhorter: "I couldn't quite grasp the grandiosity that would make someone falsely claim intimate knowledge of the most horrible crime of his time." Neither can we. Like McWhorter, the best we can do is to gaze unflinchingly at the evil of oppression and erase it from our own hearts...
Some hard-line turns are evident. National Missile Defense, the 21st century Star Wars, is coming, and Bush's message to all critics is, Deal with it. Europe, Russia and China are starting to grasp that this will be a long diplomatic, political and military wrangle. North Korea, which Clinton drew into negotiations as a "state of concern," has been downgraded again to "rogue state" by Bush. Three weeks ago, he embarrassed the President of South Korea, who has been trying to foster a warming trend, by saying the U.S. was in no rush to do more business with North...