Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These paintings speak of emotional collapse -- implosion, almost -- and survival. Done with a severe palette (Rothenberg's excursions into color, in recent years, have been tentative), they have a hard grip on the eye. Of late, whole figures have reappeared in her work. By all rights, Green Ray, 1984, with its two capering figures in a lurid spotlight on a stage of some sort -- Teddy bears, or Mickey Mice, surmounted by human masks -- ought to look merely absurd; yet their forlorn hoofings imply unwelcome news about the state of being an artist...
...president called for independent credit controls and urged a relaxation of the Fed's monetary grip; embattled on all sides, Volcker obliged, and inflation jumped to new heights...
...weeks among several Lebanese factions, and last week bitter clashes erupted between the Shi'ite Amal militia and Palestinians. Nobody seemed to know exactly what started the latest confrontation, but the significance was obvious: the Lebanese Shi'ites, the largest population group in the country, remember the steely grip the P.L.O. maintained over southern Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion, and are determined that the Palestinians never regain their power...
...speak in the Harvard Yard in early April, and were more affected by his angry, cadent rhythms than by his actual words. "Hooray, hooray," we all shouted, basking in the sunshine and the communal glow of self-congratulation. After the speech a few hundred of us, still in the grip of moral ecstasy, stood before President Bok's office and shouted things. An all-night vigil began. It rained, and began to get cold; a few, huddled under umbrellas, stayed the night and then departed the next day. Almost three weeks later, 45 students occupied the 17 Quincy Street headquarters...
...have one thing in common: the fear that the Fed would ease up on money policy. Following last month's temporary closing of 69 savings institutions in Ohio, the dollar took a beating in money markets. Reason: fear that the Federal Reserve would be forced to loosen its grip on the money supply and lower interest rates to protect the U.S. banking system. Last week's dollar slide was due in part to worries stemming from the bankruptcy of Bevill, Bresler & Shulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey investment firm dealing in Government securities. The Federal Reserve, though, has given...