Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heir as boss of the United Mine Workers is no seigneur. After six years in the job, W. A. ("Tony") Boyle is threatened by a rank-and-file revolt that would have been inconceivable in John L.'s day. The disaffection has seriously weakened Boyle's grip on the union, and could even cost...
...roar, and Tim drove off wildly--almost hysterically--into the mist, the forest, the hills, I was scared. Trees appeared out of nowhere; the cold air slapped me in the face at every turn. Soon, after a bump that sent me a foot in the air, I lost my grip and fell into the snow. As Tim went zoomnig off without me, I sank into the ice. I tried to get up, and I tripped. Twenty or 30 yards later, he realized what had happened. I got up and stumbled towards him, shouting profuse embarrassed apologies. Tim waited, revving...
...drove up in a camouflaged Land Rover with ammunition. The cartridges were counted out like gold nuggets, the .30-cal. machine gun ammunition belts handled like so many rare Grecian urns. Ihenacho, at 25 the youngest brigade commander in the Biafran army, supervised the process, his hands on the grip of a captured submachine gun. Then Ihenacho led the way up the trail leading to the village. The path was lined with civilians, young and old. "They help carry out the wounded," the colonel explained as he politely murmured greetings. "They are all volunteers...
...Time Buck White--Joseph Tuotti's play, which grew out of the Budd Schulberg Watts project, is about an organization called B.A.D. (Black Alleluia Days) and a handful of its members. The doings of these members--who embrace black culture while simultaneously trying to get a grip on the monetary aspects of white culture -- while setting up for a meeting are howlingly funny and true. When the title character, their leader, arrives to answer race-oriented questions, things get a little stagey. The production, which is graced by what may be the best cast in New York, closes Sunday...
...happier film, Smiles of a Summer Night). Here, too, the estranged couple is at the end reunited. But even these familiar touches are now used in a new way. The dialogue more than ever belongs to the characters, not to Bergman. Bergman has been released from the grip of his own questioning mind, and so he has released his characters, and so they release us. Neither he nor they are forced through tortuous mind-plucking, cerebral contortions. We should only be so lucky. Eat a pizza after seeing Shame, or walk around, or get mugged, go to the airport...