Word: grips
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...groundstomping Spanish flamenco. Dressed in flaming scarlet leotards and mean-looking red high-heeled boots, and yielding gaucho's hunting weapons called boleadoras (a rope with a wooden ball fastened on the end), these women tap and swing themselves into a frenzy that resembles a highspeed cuisinart. Their grip on their whirling weaponry is reassuringly firm; the dancers seem well-trained not to let their boleadoras wing out into the crowd...
...crawl out of his hole? The answer probably lies in fact that the abrupt changes in the old regime have weakened many of the institutions which formerly maintained order. The anti-Apartheid movement has challenged the authority of the national government, the army and the police force, whose grip over society has weakened. This, of course, has given the average person more liberty. Unfortunately, though, the lifting of the veil of repression has unleashed more than just the honest and law-abiding citizen...
...Arafat/Rabin Grip-and-Grimace...
...tycoon who is worth about $4 billion, has always sought to crush all comers -- from rivals who might try to bust up his latest deal to weekend tennis partners. On the court he uses a special leather strap that wraps around his scarred right hand to enable him to grip the racquet. "He is the most formidable competitor I've ever had," says Alan Friedberg, a retired chairman of Loews Theater Management Corp. In one tennis rally, Redstone demanded to know whether his ball was in or out. "He had to know, even though we were just hitting," Friedberg recalls...
...course, the driving force of Aerosmith remains Steve Tyler. His raspy-throated, pelting voice and wild cavortings roused the crowd from the first moments, when the band began with "Eat the Rich," a song off their new album, Get a Grip...