Word: grips
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...Sicily were not rebels against baronial power structures, but go-betweens for nobles and peasants. From the start of their history, they were directed to use every means of torture to extract fealties to their lords. When feudalism died, they did the job for themselves, maintaining an iron grip on the land they once just supervised. The Mafia has always been reactionary; it was no surprise that it helped kill Italian Communism...
...Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Despite ample surrealistic high jinks, such as having poor dead Dad fall out of the closet as stiff as an ironing board, the underlying tone of the play is lethally bitter. The adolescent hero is in the steely grip of a domineering supermom, and when a lupine nymphomaniac attempts to seduce him, the scene more resembles cannibalism than sex. His only destiny seems to be Dad's closet...
...horns sank until it pierced her heart and the other curved around her side and held her in an unbreakable grip. She continued to stare straight ahead but the entire scene in front of her had changed--the tree line was a dark wound in a world that was nothing but sky--and she had the look of a person whose sight has been suddenly restored but who finds the light unbearable...
...shambles. Now Taft is maneuvering to wrest power from the Rhodes-influenced Republican state central committee. He plans to run for the 46-member committee in hopes that growing dissatisfaction with Rhodes' leadership and Taft's own improved power position will enable him to break Rhodes' grip on the party. Since Ohio and its 25 electoral votes are a major election prize, Nixon's men are hoping that the fratricidal fight will be over and the wounds healed by November...
...Between games, they sat on the stoops and talked about girls. "Cliff was way ahead of us," says Safire. Even as a very young man, Irving was developing what some who knew him regarded as an extraordinary animal magnetism. Another old friend admits with a touch of awe: "The grip he has on women is incredible...