Word: grasping
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...indestructible humvees. Since he returned from Iraq, he hasn't been able to sit still, so as he talks, his hand constantly worries at the filmy floral curtains, twisting and turning the fabric. His wife Kristy, laughing along with his stories, quietly reaches out, frees the curtains from his grasp and places his hand back on the couch. Twist, reach, release. Twist, reach, release. Finally, Kristy gently rests her hand on her husband's and leaves it there to calm him. It's a gesture that would be unremarkable in its tenderness if not for one thing: Jim's bags...
...general education proposals include eliminating the Foreign Cultures Core requirement in favor of a more general distributional requirement in the humanities and allowing undergraduates to complete two semesters of required of language study after their first year. This means that students could easily leave Cambridge with an even shabbier grasp of the language, history, and culture of the foreign country in which they choose to study, making it even more likely that they will take the path of least resistance and drink themselves through the semester...
...worsened - in Malta in 1608 he was arrested again for another brawl and had to escape from prison - his palette and his configurations of space became more subdued. His figures begin to flicker and dematerialize. Pagan motifs disappear; religious scenes multiply. Bloodshed and death turn up everywhere. You can grasp his evolution in the distance that separates the 1601 version of The Supper at Emmaus, which belongs to the National Gallery, and a version completed five years later, soon after he fled Rome. Both focus on the moment of Christ's appearance before two astonished disciples...
...important for both patients and loved ones to grasp that terminal patients aren't just dying--they're also living, stresses Therese Rando, clinical director at the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss in Warwick, R.I. "With that realization, patients often begin doing things to give their lives purpose and meaning," Rando says. "People want to know they can continue to exist in the world after they're dead. Who wants to be forgotten...
...What I loved about Henry was his intelligence, his immediate grasp of all dimensions of the subject," says Lance Morrow, a writer Grunwald cultivated at TIME. "He improved stories by suggesting 10 new things you had not thought of." The range of his mind was legendary. As a young man, he would recite to his dates from T.S. Eliot. While rising at TIME, he managed to edit a compendium of critical writings about the author J.D. Salinger and another called Sex in America. One of our cherished legends about Henry describes his being told that a writer's cover story...