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...Each set a hard act to follow with initial success. Each fell on its face trying to follow it. With the whole world breathing down your neck and the gallery screaming for your head, the pressure can make all but the strongest crumble like a Famous Amos in the vise of an angry Sumo wrestler...
...since 1954, he has spent a total of nine years in jail for advocating democratic changes in the political process and is still unable to travel outside of Yugoslavia. His theory of personality determinism, however, merely strengthens the argument that Tito-leading a nation caught in an American-Soviet vise-centralized power in Yugoslavia for the good of the country. Yugoslavia's fate cannot be simply attributed to Tito's character as Djilas believes...
...angry walkout of two civilians in the ruling junta. The junta averted collapse only when a leading moderate, Christian Democrat Party Leader José Napoleón Duarte, was persuaded to join it last March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington threatened an aid cutoff if it was carried...
Kubrick crafts his camera angles carefully, providing framing and backgrounds that serve as leitmotifs for each character. He maintains a persistent symmetry, as if the Torrances were caught in a photographic vise. And he is witty: when Jack makes up his mind to punish Danny, the cartons in the pantry behind him read "Pimento Pieces" and "Peach Slices...
...problem and the solution Bok deals with in the report. For one thing, it is a cost-cutting measure--officials said printing a separate booklet for the annual report was an unnecessary extravagence in an era where, as Bok warns in the report, Harvard is caught in an inflationary vise...