Word: grasps
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...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...
Which doesn't mean I really understand the politics. Trying to grasp what I read in the papers each morning is a bit like trying to solve a Rubik's cube in the dark on a ship sinking in the ocean in the middle of a storm. Trying to sort out the betrayals and the counter-betrayals and the deepseated animosities between the two groups is a task I believe to be beyond anyone lacking advanced degrees in theology, political science, sociology and counter-terrorism. In fact, I have yet to meet anyone--native or otherwise--who claims to understand...
...stranger to great schools) has a way to go before he assumes Reagan's mantle. He looks the part, but he hasn't displayed anything like Reagan's ability to deflect attacks or deliver warm words and one-liners to a camera. (He may need those gifts because his grasp of world issues seems at times Reaganesque.) Nor does Bush have Reagan's base of true believers, since he hasn't been espousing a consistent ideology for 20 years. Or even 10. "Reagan had earned his spurs by 1980," says his former campaign manager, John Sears. "George hasn...
...noble family who wasn't even sure whether he wanted to be King. This week, as he roars out of Texas with so much money and momentum behind him that people can't agree on whether this is the campaign's beginning or its end, the best way to grasp what has happened may be to imagine that both stories are true...
...hubris or of careless luxury but rather on the fact that it was both a magnificent and flawed piece of work, and that it became most interesting when it was lying out of reach underwater. How to get down to it and bring it to the surface? How to grasp something so wonderful, confident and ruined, a creation as immense as the past...