Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Undefeated University of Pennsylvania continues its death grip on first place in the Ivy League this season. Cornell (3-1) has slipped to second place. Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale are all tied for fourth place with a record...
...Chambers County in the midst of a torrential downpour. As the vehicle came to a stop, the father grabbed his two-year-old son and his baby, who was born only two months ago. Attempting to scramble to safety on the roof of the car, he lost his grip on the infant, who immediately disappeared in the swirling water; the child's body was found Wednesday...
...first I was worried that my being gay would scare people off it they found out I was gay before I told them. Now it's different because I realize that to fit in I need to make my place as much find it," he says. "I got a grip and realized that I'm in college to learn for myself and not for others...
...duty to revel in Kubrick's extraordinary film. Don't be surprised if you come out of the Brattle more thoughtful about the nuclear arms race. But you won't by thinking about such trivialities in the theater. Kubrick and his cast will fix Dr. Strangelove's own death grip on you--uncontrollable laughter...
...identity. Adam Feldman plays the deliciously crazy General Bloody Five, who in addition to being infamously brutal also becomes insatiably horny whenever it rains. Feldman's cartoon-like raving is terrifying and funny; he captures all the extremities of Bloody Five's moods, including his bewilderment as his grip on reality slips further and further away. A complement to Bloody Five's hysteria is the cool and calculating Widow saloon, who handles Bloody Five with nerves of steel and a hunger for money. Catherine Steindley's portrayal of Begbick is campy and shrill, but at times she reveals a vulnerability...