Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story line could easily support a high-tension adventure thriller: call it Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Celluloid Gods. A major Hollywood motion-picture studio dangles over a financial precipice. Suspense mounts. The studio's grip is slipping. Will a rescue come in time? Yes! No! Wait! A dark and dashing film executive comes running! With amazing speed and savvy, he and a band of executive sidekicks fashion socko new feature films and perform brilliant marketing acrobatics. Finally, the studio swings across the threatening void. On the other side it finds -- what else? -- a king's ransom...
...wisdom holds that a third world war is most likely to begin in that region, but political touts say that Eastern Europe is the horse to watch. The Soviets simply do not have the resources to woo Latin American and African countries and at the same time keep their grip on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. Britain, whose imperial eye took in much of the world a hundred years ago, now struggles with a crippled economy -- a chastening lesson here. Daunting to think that by the time you receive this, the geometry of wealth and power will have expanded...
...Palestine Liberation Organization to stage a comeback in the region at the expense of Jordan's King * Hussein. Said one senior official in Jerusalem: "The P.L.O. feels frustrated that it is not succeeding. It has been thrown to the wolves by Hussein, and it's afraid of seeing its grip lessened in the West Bank. After all, there has been a major attempt by Hussein to restore his own influence in the territory...
...great occasions and personalities but lending consequence to more modest events. Take possession of the times, they say, in the forms of intimate remembrance. Look at his most famous photograph, of a sailor planting a resolute kiss during the 1945 V-J day celebration in Times Square. A confident grip on the future at the hub of the American universe, a heartfelt smooch at the world's most celebrated intersection of the public and the private -- what other postwar picture at once acknowledged the historical moment, summed up the elation of the victors and even hinted at the baby boom...
...scandals are very similar. Both prove that the Republican Party is "so far right, it's right out of the picture." In 1964, with the nomination of Barry Goldwater, the right wing grabbed hold of the GOP and barring a few small lapses, it has solidified its grip to this...