Word: grasping
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Silly haters. Sure, only recent immigrants with a loose grasp of English would spout out gibberish like: “You’re so beautiful,” “It must be because I’m so in love,” “No! It’s because I’m so in love with...
...Honesty was not his only virtue. He wrote meticulously and had incisive analytic powers. Few could rival his grasp of Chinese society, or his abiding affection for China's common folk. The day after Liu died at the age of 80, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, announced that the government had nothing to say about him or his requests to return to China. "We have already reached our conclusions about him." Those conclusions, ironically, only strengthen Liu's legacy. They show that "two kinds of truth" are still with...
...last year, it was the general view that Avedon was one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium. Sometimes the general view gets it exactly right. This endlessly fascinating collection, devoted to pictures of women, makes plain the phenomenal range of his imagination and his deep grasp of what can be said by the human form and face. His high-stepping fashion shots, his cheeky celebrity portraits, his images of grandes dames as they dwindle sublimely into old age--not one of them is less than riveting...
...Richard Nixon: Trying to Grasp the Real Nixon...
Harvard nearly let the victory escape its grasp down the stretch. Despite trailing by as many as 11 points in the second half, the Catamounts fought back on the strength of their perimeter shooting, tying the game at 50 with 6:21 to play on forward Ryan Schneider’s three-pointer. Harvard gained back some breathing room on a trifecta by senior forward Zach Martin, but with 2:03 left, Schneider—who finished with a game-high 19 points—hit another three to give Vermont a 57-56 lead, its first advantage since late...