Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could the steely Dukakis so lose his grip? Some say it took him months to get over the guilt of waging so flimsy a campaign. Others found confirmation of longstanding misgivings about Dukakis, the odd and uncomfortable politician so pathetically incapable of relating to others. Example: never did he speak about his presidential defeat in a personal way to Massachusetts voters who were so stirred by his candidacy. They came to resent that...
...Once unified by Moscow's tight grip, the countries of Eastern Europe are breaking free unevenly. Poland and Hungary lead the way, East Germany is groping to catch up, and Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania remain far behind. As the participants -- even Gorbachev -- improvise from one day to the next, old alliances are being strained. "Almost overnight," says Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences, "all the rivalries and tensions in the bloc that Communist orthodoxy had papered over for decades burst into the open...
COVER: As Gorbachev relaxes his grip on Eastern Europe, he proves once and for all that he seeks a different world...
Issa N. Youssef '90, says that being in Kasparov's grip is akin to battling a boxing champ. "In boxing the stronger and faster person wins. In chess the better player wins. There is no luck involved, and there is no one to blame if you lose...
...NOTEBOOK: Van Dykum, a starter for the Crimson, split time with sophomore Loren Ambinder because of a broken thumb sustained in the Holy Cross game. The cast put on her hand was molded for her to grip a field hockey stick...