Word: grips
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...each is given a flashback that shows them confronting the one thing they all share--loneliness. We interpret the characters' very limited present-tense actions with that information; and when each expresses an insufficient response toward Agnes's death, we realize it is because they have only the barest grip on life...
...analysis stop at a symbolism laid on so thick that it is embarassing. Take, for instance, Mathilde's fascination with radioactive half-life, the dominant metaphor for Beatrice's disintegration; or Beatrice's boarder, a vegetable corpse of a woman, with palsied hands, lips curled in like a death grip, and big blind eyes that lear a reminder of isolation. These are the tools of Williams's memory mood plays, a manipulative sentimentalism masquerading as moral realism...
Nixon will keep mandatory controls on several enterprises that have a particularly strong grip on the American wallet. Hospitals and nursing homes can raise prices no more than an average 6% a year. Doctors and dentists can increase fees only an average of 2.5%. Major food processors will still have to get prior approval for price boosts, and grocers' markups will be closely regulated. Construction wage hikes must be cleared by the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee...
Despite its doubts, Congress has continued to support the war through its military appropriations, partly because it has completely lost its grip on the nation's budget-making machinery...
...Kremlin's emissary to Sofia, Vladimir Bazovsky, acts more like an imperial proconsul than an ambassador. Bazovsky's staff includes high-ranking "advisers" to the Bulgarian armed forces and secret police. Such supervision seems scarcely necessary, however; Bulgaria's Moscow-trained leadership has maintained a tighter grip on its people than any other Soviet-bloc government. Party Leader Todor Zhivkov, 61, who has been in power for 18 years, presides over the oldest Politburo in Eastern Europe (average age of full members: 64). Perhaps that is appropriate for a country where the prominence of yogurt...