Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that can be thought can be written," says Rhodes, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair enough, but writing explicitly about sex requires a more delicate touch. It takes only a few pages to realize he is in the grip of graphomania. Flesh must become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...
Most Saddam watchers believe that he does not want to risk a suicidal death grip with Bush. Saddam's leadership since Desert Storm has been a case study in guile, ruthlessness and careful timing. The clash over the Agriculture Ministry is the fifth time the allies have had to cock their guns to ensure compliance with U.N. sanctions; each time in the past Saddam backed down. "He is trying to nickel-and-dime us until he can erode the sanctions and regain his sovereignty," says Phebe Marr of the National Defense University in Washington...
...quickie polls, was that those conservatives walked away from Bush's "failed, status quo" presidency and will turn to Clinton as the only remaining nonincumbent agent of change. This analysis (spun to negate the Democrats' earlier hope that Bush and Perot would eventually lock themselves in a death grip that would carry both over the precipice) holds that Perot's followers were, like Clinton, fiscal conservatives and social liberals...
...past eight years, Sergei Bubka's grip on the pole vault has been so unrelenting that every competition he enters becomes not a question of who will win but how high Bubka will soar...
...presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot's grip on the public's attention. But that did not stop the President from calling a rare prime-time press conference last week in a vain bid for network coverage. Only CNN and C-SPAN broadcast the event, which was designed to showcase an angry President pressing a reluctant Congress...