Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, the White House seems in the grip of a secrecy syndrome that was thought to be found only in the Kremlin. In this respect, we seem to have become more like the Communists than they have become like us, which is not the way that some people thought it should work...
...Rehab is still in its crucial stage and Lisa doubts she will return to college in the near future. It is the specifics of organizing that frustrate Lisa and not the choices she has to make about her own future. The more immediate exigencies of external situations seem to grip her and therefore decisions about her education keeps getting postponed...
CECIL STOUGHTON keeps colliding with Presidents, camera firmly in his grip. He did the picture of John Kennedy on Inaugural Day of 1961, waving to the crew of PT-109 on the parade float. It was his picture of Jackie Kennedy in the little sleigh on the snow-covered south lawn that became the President's Christmas card in 1962. Cecil was out at Atoka, Va., the Kennedy country place, on the weekend before Nov. 22, 1963. He took the pictures of John-John marching with a toy gun and helmet and saluting-a salute that the three-year...
...written are brilliant, but the demands imposed upon the actors are rigorous: they have to carry hundreds of invisible people--not to mention the people in the audience--along this roller coaster, and sustain it all until the climax. In this production, the actors keep losing grip. We wallow in monotony until a particular line catches us suddenly and throws our heads back as the ride starts again for a while...
...each is given a flashback that shows them confronting the one thing they all share--loneliness. We interpret the characters' very limited present-tense actions with that information; and when each expresses an insufficient response toward Agnes's death, we realize it is because they have only the barest grip on life...