Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things sour when Cristal tries to tighten her grip on her grip on her protege. So when the aging Goddess "accidentally" breaks her leg falling down the stairs, everyone knows where the blame lies. Nomi rises to stardom, or her idea of it anyway, even snatching away Cristal's flaky boyfriend in the process...
...women ("girls," in pageant parlance) grow savvier with each local contest. Many wear Firm Grip, a sports adhesive, to keep their swimsuits from riding up. Miss Vermont eats bananas to steady her nerves. Rebecca Gray, Miss Indiana, confides, "I have really fine hair, so I fill in my hairline with dark eye shadow." Even these beauty tips can't help them compete forever. There is an age limit, a kind of Menudo Line, of 25 for contestants. Elizabeth McIntyre, Miss West Virginia, is 24, and when she won her state title, she says, she felt "relieved. I was aging...
...lightweights' Eastern Sprints title earned the crew an automatic berth at the Henley Royal Regatta in England. Although Harvard was unable to break the 24-year death grip that heavyweight crews have on the event, the Crimson did place in the top eight crews, out of a field of 48. Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association (6:15) eliminated Harvard (6:14) in the quarterfinals...
Still, a number of forces are working to make the prospects for independent candidates the best they have been in modern U.S. history. Most important, over the past 20 years or so, the two parties have been losing the grip they once had on the majority of voters. "People no longer care about parties the way they once did," says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "Seventy percent of the electorate is up for grabs." Voter mistrust of both parties is running as high as it was during Watergate-by some surveys, higher. That sense of alienation is coming...
...gathered. Many of her supporters suspect that the generals are merely trying to woo foreign governments, investors and such institutions as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund by making a single concession-the release of the lady -- with no intention of further loosening their hold on Burma. That grip is indeed tight: the government jails and tortures political prisoners, forces peasants to labor on roads and railways without pay, and is supervising the writing of a new constitution for its 45 million people that will enshrine the military's role in running the country...