Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stockboys wheel out new racks of dresses and are immediately mobbed. Mrs. Conroy: "We sort of crunch those poor boys up against the wall, grab what we can and then, resuming our ladylike dignity, trip...
...most sensational trigger: a double bed that moves slowly upward eight feet into a mirror-covered nook in the ceiling. Another, simpler model features a mirror that drops suddenly to a position only four feet over the bed. Explains Manager Nagasaka: "Shocked and terrified, your partner is bound to grab hold...
...actors feel they should happen, regardless of what is actually being said. While this can and does happen in a conventional Chek-hov production, the difference is that in this production the explosions are never suppressed. We not only feel them but see them. Characters (actors) almost violently grab for each other when they feel love. They growl at each other when they feel hate. They dance and spin when they are happy. The power of the production, ideally, operates on a conscious rather than a sub-conscious level...
...school record in the shot put. At Grambling College he made the Small College All-America basketball team twice, and figured to be Detroit's first-round draft choice. But the Pistons unexpectedly bypassed him, and a New York scout named Red Holzman insisted that the Knicks grab...
...came up second out of 366, smashing my hope of painlessly escaping a system whose purpose and methods appall me. I had seen the opening: parlaying four years of an elitist deferment with an unreachably high birthdate number, which would carry me until my liability ended. Instead, a random grab at pile of capsules has permanently cemented the alliance between my self-interest and my most detached political beliefs. I think draft resistance would have remained my political position after it no longer had to be my personal position. As it is. I'm not given the chance to find...