Word: grips
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...offset the play's some what tenuous grip of reality, aged photos are intermittently flashed against the set. Sometimes the pictures help us relate to the stylized movements on stage by giving us a sense of context, but at other times these just complicate an already nebulous plot. For example, Bolden and a fictional photographer named Bellocq make a pact in which the musician supplies his friend with nude women for subjects. Besides the questionable relation of the episode to the plot, the constant flashing of nudes borders on the offensive and pornographic...
...during the invasion of Lebanon, Assad has rebuilt not only his country's armed forces but its image and its diplomatic position. Far from humbled, he has acquired a decisive voice in the future of Lebanon and of the Palestinian movement. At home, thanks to a steel-fisted grip that has squelched most of the opposition to his regime, Assad is more secure than at any other time in his 13 years in office...
...P.R.I, left little doubt that it intends to preserve its firm grip on Mexican politics. One example of adroit political maneuvering could be seen in the town of Juchitán (pop. 110,000), whose predominantly Indian population had grown increasingly sympathetic to the militant leftist coalition COCEI, which has energetically implemented popular civic reforms. The P.R.I, did not take any legal action last spring when the COCEl reinstalled a radical peasant, Leopoldo de Gyves, as mayor of Juchitán. But as the elections approached, the ruling party began to assert its power. Government-run Oaxacan newspapers ran spurious...
Trouble was, George Brett likes the feel of callused skin against unpolished timber, so the T-85s he orders by the cord from the Hillerich & Bradsby Co. in Kentucky are unstained, pure white bolts of mountain ash, legendary Louisville Sluggers. In order to keep his grip without gloves, the Kansas City third baseman takes tar and slathers every bat like a small town honoring a scoundrel. About the middle of the club, maybe a little higher up than the label, Brett cultivates a sticky reserve for when his palms get especially clammy, like when Goose Gossage is pitching...
...basically if you really set your mind to it, you will at least be able to focus in on the novel's "meaning." But this rule of thumb does not apply to Gilbert Sorrentini's latest work, Blue Pastoral--thinking is of no use. And only in the grip of a spasm of frustration, as you are preparing to heave this book across the room, will you possibly get an inkling of what has been going on or why the actions took place...