Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backstage, an entire galaxy of misfits awaits him. King is horrified by the "cattle call," an open audition at which nearly 3,000 players vie for fewer than 20 parts. He discovers a homosexual tryst in a packing crate, loses his grip when a chicken called Modine pecks its understudy to death and is replaced by Cluck Gable, and suffers a painful disorientation when he stands in for Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead...
...entire country seemed to be in the grip of a patriotic fever. In the capital, blue-and-white national flags adorned everything from office buildings to shop windows to taxicab antennas. Cafés, shops and hotel lobbies buzzed with excited talk of the latest news. Television shows were repeatedly interrupted by grave-sounding announcers reading war bulletins before the backdrop of the national emblem. Crowds gathered outside newsstands to peruse the latest reports. On the Plaza de la República, women sat in the sun knitting wool socks, caps and scarves for the troops on the islands...
What is it about TV news that makes otherwise cogent screenwriters go bananas? Paddy Chayefsky lost his grip on dramaturgy when he constructed his Network. Now Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood) heaves a harangue about world politics and the media, and it is one desperate muddle. Sean Connery plays a superstar reporter who bears messages not only to millions of viewers but, Haiglike, from heads of state to thugs of war. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. What does not balance is Brooks' Strangelovian mix of comic terror and terrorist comedy. Give him points...
...internal debate within Congress over whether it can and should lead or only react to presidential initiatives shows how uncertain the two houses have become about their own role in the Federal Government. If Congress is unwilling to exert its power over the purse, it has lost its grip on its most fundamental constitutional mandate...
Senior pitcher Val Romero went the official distance in yesterday's game, and her two-hit performance should get her out of some of today's practice session. Despite the weather, Romero maintained her grip on the ball and threw strikes until the ump decided to stop calling them...