Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Years of the bad life have given the kinky Tockbridge a sexual grip over the vice president and half of Washington. She has a shoebox of films to prove it, too-- her way of combining business and pleasure. Along the way, she has also picked up liabilities, however, and as she closes in on the vice presidency, these return to haunt her. Her most dangerous enemy turns out to be the most unusual of all--an incorruptible, determined Justice Department lawyer who has uncovered an Agnewesque construction company plot...
Rosovsky's moves this week will, at any rate, probably end up loosening Guinier's vice-like grip on his department, and will almost certainly result in more joint appointments than appointments in Afro alone. Guinier is rapidly nearing retirement age, and his brief, stormy period of prominence and influence here appears to be drawing to a close...
SOMETIMES YOU open a book and discover that the author knows who you are. Whatever you wind up thinking of the book as a whole, all the details are right--the writer seems to have a grip on your own imaginary landscape: your thoughts, your friends, your tastes, the way you remember things. If he's good, the author can build these shared instincts into a way of leaping the synapse between his words and his audience. Like conversation with an old friend, his sentences only have to go halfway toward you; you can complete the rest yourself and feel...
...serious cases"-would be allowed "to leave forever the national territory." Already Orlando Letelier, former Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S., had left his Chilean prison for exile in Venezuela. But Pinochet also put an end to any hopes that a genuine loosening of the junta's grip was in the making. He blandly told a crowded press conference that the military might well remain in power for "10, 15, 20 or even 25 years...
...Segal lives thinking the odds are stacked against him. He's separated from his wife, he's in debt to a man named Spark (played by scriptwriter Joseph Walsh). So he's betting for survival--if he can control chance just for a minute, maybe he can get a grip on his life. When he finally wins he doesn't even want the spoils. A classic kind of gambler, which Segal and Altman do credit to, but it's nothing...