Word: grips
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just as easily top $5 billion. There are more than 1,000 firms in the advising business in the Washington area alone, and for years they have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city. Trying to get a grip on their multifarious activities, says Pryor, "is like wrestling with an 800-lb. marshmallow...
...will have a Cabinet of his own choosing, whereas the present, 13-member Revolutionary Council includes many of his most powerful opponents. Says a senior government official: "You cannot operate under the constant threat of being stabbed in the back Meanwhile, Banisadr is trying to get a firm grip on the institutions of power As the country's newly appointed commander in chief, he conferred with military leaders about potential threats to Iran. Later, repeating his assertions that the hostage crisis is distracting Iranian from more important matters, he declared: "We ar surrounded by hostile forces...
Isamu Noguchi is the pre-eminent American sculptor. This fine-boned and unaged man, with a grip as tough as an old Maine lobster's, has expanded his work over an extraordinary range of images, media and purposes in the course of a 50-year career. Whether he is engaged with ballet and theater sets or monumental fountains, pieces for giant plazas or intimate playgrounds, huge sun discs fabricated from carved stone or diminutive wood sculptures and paper lamps, Noguchi's touch has never ceased to be subtle, precise and informed. He is entitled to be seen...
...authority, yes, but he allowed a parliament to be chosen in elections quite free of political parties. Press freedom prevailed for newspapers that could pass the government censors. After his military coup in 1973, Mohammed Daud let dynastic rule continue, but he proclaimed a republic. He relaxed his dictatorial grip so much that his top ministers were authorized to spend up to 70 pounds without his personal approval. So popular was Daud that he was able to squish seven separate attempts to overthrow him before the Marxist coup of 1978. In addition, for three decades Afghanistan has upheld democratic principles...
...American jugular, finally managed to annihilate his earlier self-Mad Dog Sal, the insecure and ravenously aggressive young lounge lizard whose tiny, enameled visions helped create one of the extreme moments of dandyist revolt and modernist disgust. But today the only interesting thing about Dali is the obsessive grip of his pose. He has convinced a public that could hardly tell a Vermeer from a Velásquez that he is the spiritual heir to both painters. And he has done so, not through art but by the diffusion of small anecdotes. Everything is calculated, literally down to the last...