Word: grips
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That is too bad, because the author's new novel demands some patience and cooperation from readers before its effects begin to take hold and grip. Gone is the spare, metronomic prose that made the inventive plot of Ragtime so accessible and entertaining. The written surface of Loon Lake is ruffled and choppy. Swatches of poetry are jumbled together with passages of computerese and snippets of mysteriously disembodied conversation. Narration switches suddenly from first to third person, or vice versa, and it is not always clear just who is telling what. Chronology is so scrambled that the aftereffects...
...final days before the Democratic Party was to select its candidate for President, Jimmy Carter moved impressively on two fronts to tighten his grip on the nomination. He cooled the uproar over his brother Billy with an impressive full-hour prime-time press conference and with a 99-page report to a Senate investigating subcommittee. At the same time, his aides were negotiating pre-convention compromises with Challenger Edward Kennedy's camp that reduced the danger of a grand old Democratic donnybrook this week in Madison Square Garden...
...sole possession of first place. She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace. Suddenly as she flew over the bar, she was unable to regain her grip and fell what seemed a dangerously long way to the mat. She resumed the exercise, receiving a 9.5 score, the maximum allowed after a fall. The Soviet women, who have dominated Olympic competition since 1956 but who finished second to Rumania in last year's World Championships, went...
...Eisenhower and Reagan-in temperament, education, experience, talent, knowledge and techniques of leadership-have much to do with each other? Some of their characteristics are similar-the winning American grin, the air of decent good guy. In both, the voter senses a remarkably steady emotional grip, a self-confidence; both inspire loyalty. In neither have Americans detected those dark glints of paranoia and compulsion that eventually repelled them in some Presidents after...
...Reagan has little prescience, little desire even to consider the long-term. Increased emphasis on coal--also a finite resource, and the cause of acid rain to boot--and on nuclear energy (which has proved remarkably cost-inefficient, apocalyptic scenarios aside) show an unwillingness or inability to get a grip on the future destiny Reagan begs us to "recapture...