Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interesting to see where the nation settles down these four more years. If it is true that a man with certain principles was elected, and not an established set of values, then a set of values still waits to be established. There is no doubt that Reagan has a grip on the country, but what grip does the country have on itself? So memorable a victory tells us who we wanted. Now, what do we want? -By Roger Rosenblatt
...side sat an aging Ronald Reagan, still tall in the saddle, holding forth a future rooted in a mythic past of heroic patriots and open opportunity. He rode into the election with several large achievements: a real grip on inflation, an undeniable economic recovery and a substantial defense buildup. But he bore the burden of a monstrous deficit for whose solution he offered only the Band-Aid of a balanced-budget amendment. He may frequently have been wrong on his facts, but he spoke to the wordless groping of millions of Americans seeking comfort in the future. Reagan wanted...
...ounce of the original Broadway play's intensity is lost in the Leverett House Art Society's excellent production of Equus. Presented as theater in the round, this production wastes no time in drawing the audience into the action and the play releases its grip only after two--and-a-half hours of troubling and, ultimately, cathartic drama. Under Brad Dalton's able direction, the cast, comprised almost entirely of newcomers to the Harvard stage, skillfully sustains an intense atmosphere of tension and provides a few examples of superb acting...
...bottom line is that this is an incumbent President who never lost his grip," says one Mondale aide. White House strategists say that the President was shaken only once, when he stumbled in the first debate. Otherwise Reagan has been able to float along, sounding broad themes, flexing the power of his office, and reinforcing his image as a strong leader. Rather than outline what he would try to do in the next four years, he contrasts his first-term record against the "Carter-Mondale" Administration. He asks voters, "Are you better off than you were four years...
Love in this sprightly, misanthropic comedy assumes two basic guises: Priscilla's death grip on her family as a vehicle for social survival and Hughie's foolish infatuation. Mainly it is betrayal that makes Wilson's fictional world go round. Feathers deceives Mrs. Blore by exploiting her pillow talk in a sensational and highly profitable exposé of her husband. Derek Blore, the Right Honorable Member for Wheat-bridge East, got the ball rolling with furtive visits to a prostitute named Bernadette for his ritual whipping. Blore enjoyed fancying himself a naughty schoolboy, a harmless diversion were...