Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrate the slippery grip on reality his lawyers will claim for him, Hinckley has written a letter to TIME Washington Correspondent Evan Thomas elaborating on his one-sided courtship of Actress Jodie Foster, 18 (see box). Hinckley had written TIME several weeks earlier offering to answer any 20 questions the magazine posed. Thomas submitted the questions-on such subjects as Hinckley's childhood, his travels before the shooting and his friends-but Hinckley chose to address only his feelings about Foster. Atop the letter, Hinckley scrawled the title, The Lovesick Assassin...
Rabbit still runs, not to escape Janice and responsibility but to try to shrink his 42-in. waist. Jogging stimulates him into philosophy: "Life tries to get a grip anywhere, on earth that is, not on the moon, that's another thing he doesn't like about the thought of climbing through the stars." Thought has become Rabbit's refuge and strength. He and Janice and two other couples take a Caribbean vacation...
...thus far of his writing. It may even include students, but he's not saying for sure. Engel brightens perceptibly when the subject of his writing comes up; he doesn't really talk much about the work, yet he seems comfortable in its atmosphere, relaxed in the familiar grip of his profession. Writing and teaching may not come easily to him, but he has made up his mind about his life and he has found quietude in the certainty of his decision. "I'm 60 years old," says Monroe Engel, "I write fiction because that is what...
Ireland's entrance into the modern world has come simultaneously with another phenomenon Kelleher says is changing the nation's literature--the loosening grip of the Catholic Church. "The change in the church has made a lot of (Irish writing) obsolete. When I was first teaching at Harvard, Catholic students could understand what much of Irish literature was about in its reaction to an old and authoritarian church. Now that church is gone, and it is hard even for Catholic students to figure out why writers reacted so strongly against the overwhelming power of the church." Reactions against the church...
...charge: plotting to kill Doe and other military leaders. Found guilty, the five men were led past a howling mob to the Barclay Training Center, Monrovia's main military barracks, to be shot and bludgeoned to death in their cells later that night. Besides consolidating Doe's grip on the P.R.C., says a Western diplomat, "the killings were a warning to the former civilians in the Cabinet." One who took the warning seriously was Minister of Planning Togba-Nah Tipoteh, an American-trained economist. Two weeks ago, he sent in his resignation from the safety of the neighboring...