Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even caught myself passing up The Godfather and "10" at the video rental place for a tape called "Automatic Golf." The tape consists of a barrel-chested pro demonstrating a grip so convoluted that he swears it makes perfect golf swings inevitable...
...unmake governments; tanks do that, and, more rarely but surely, people do. And, even armed with the truth, the media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. An official threat to your advertisers, a grip on your paper supply or a squad of soldiers at your doorstep, and your last issue becomes your paper's valedictory...
Almost since the London Exchange was founded in 1801, the City's bowler- hatted business culture has flourished in a cozy world of old-line brokerage and investment houses that enjoyed both fixed commissions and an oligopolistic grip on various financial functions. Until Big Bang occurs, for example, only six firms are allowed to act as jobbers in British Treasury bonds, known locally as gilts. This comfortable arrangement, however, did not sit well with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who feared that London was losing ground to low-cost, high-volume centers like Wall Street. In 1983 her aides negotiated...
Short, stocky and muscular, the pit bullterrier has a reputation for viciousness, so much so that Adventurer-Author Jack London once characterized it as "clinging death." Bred as a dogged fighter, the pit bull uses powerful jaws to grip and shake its victim until the flesh tears loose...
...postwar years, during which Kokoschka cast himself as a maestro appointed to pull the great European figurative tradition out of the grip of abstraction, his art declined in vitality. One soon wearies, for instance, of the view-fromthe-boardroom cityscapes of Berlin, London and New York that he turned out in some profusion for Axel Springer and other bigwigs of the postwar boom years. But to say that his talent collapsed like Chagall's is quite untrue. Chagall painted nothing but cloying ethnic kitsch for the last 30 years of his life. But in some of Kokoschka's last paintings...