Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly, the suspect told the student, "I'm very sorry," and released his grip. Then he fled the area, Johnson said, running down Holyoke St. toward Winthrop...
Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
Nevertheless, there are moments, individual works in the show, that develop a peculiar grip. An early one is a small white room with nothing in it except two speakers on opposite walls, from which comes a hissing, weirdly broken repetition of two phrases, recited by Nauman: "Get out of this room. Get out of my mind." The paranoid intensity of this cell has to be experienced to be believed. Another is a video piece: the projected image of a mime, with a chair suspended from the ceiling behind it and a green wax head on the chair. A disembodied voice...
...Stars, playing the second of a season-long six-game homestand that will most likely decide Dallas' playoff fate, maintained their grip on the seventh playoff spot in the conference with 37 points, three behind sixth-place Vancouver...
...once the recruits are in the cult's grip, they encounter a darker side, even if they do not recognize it. Their charismatic leader preaches that they are surrounded by enemies, that nonbelievers are out to crush them and that God commands vengeance. In some sects they are told to commit violent acts, says Hoffman, "because the only way they can hasten redemption or achieve salvation is to eliminate the nonbelievers...