Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmarked coffins in a Santiago cemetery? Chile? The international pariah that refuses to extradite to the U.S. the former head of the Chilean secret service and two other army officers indicted for murder by a federal grand jury? Yes, Chile, where Military Dictator Augusto Pinochet is simultaneously tightening his grip on the government and freeing up the economy...
...Subotnik and George Crumb. Last month None such's guiding spirit, Teresa Sterne, was dismissed and its future sessions canceled by the parent company, Elektra/Asylum (owned in turn by Warner Communications). Ominously, it now appears that many worthy scores may go unrecorded if the label is in the grip of those to whom the real score is the balance sheet...
...governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity, the felling of not knowing whether he was north or south or blue or gray, and became a captain in a raiding fore that was a adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more...
...audience is transported directly to slumberland. For the next 90 minutes, there is little reason to stir. By telling the story of three elderly men who rob a bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor...