Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richardson's controlled portrayal of a complex and sympathetic Edmund--the character who represents O'Neill himself--is undoubtedly the play's most powerful performance. He despairs for his parents and brother, but his tenderness for them is plain. His occasional flares of morbid poetry, betraying his artistic sensitivity, grip and startle us. He delivers his lines naturally, with an occasional stammer or peevish whine. Hunching his shoulders, dragging his feet, he even looks like a weary consumptive. His multifaceted portrayal is believable and compelling throughout...
...mystifies Dallek. "Despite the fact that effective presidents have been more the exception than the rule in our history," he states, "it is difficult to believe that a nation of 226 million people cannot find a more rational, thoughtful and energetic leader with greater self-awareness and a better grip on national and international realities." True enough, but Dallek fails to reach deeper than his liberal frustration to explain the hold Reaganism exerts on the country...
Jernigan tore through the field, besting Williams' Greg Zaff in the final, 3-2. It was Jernigan's second national singles title this season: he won the USSRA championship last month. The sophomore has now won both amateur titles two years in a row, and has firmly established his grip as the top collegiate player in the country...
...hand-picked successor to Generalissimo Francisco Franco--who ruled Spain with an iron grip from 1939 to his death in 1975--Juan Carlos succeeded to the throne and promptly instituted a constitutional monarchy...
Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled against public school segregation in the case of Brown V. Board of Education and 20 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally outlawed segregation and discrimination throughout the land, the social cancer we call poverty has tightened its grip on a large and growing number of Black Americans. Unless we as a nation make a sharp break with the inadequate policies of the past--both Democratic and Republican alike--a very large number of Blacks will remain locked outside the mainstream of American society...