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The press, gripped by Herman's not-especially-notable part in the Democratic National Committee fund-raising scandal, has largely ignored the many interesting convolutions in her various roles.
Someone who is `taking risks' is feeling brave , and when he falls, he is peeling . Any climber who comes to a stop through `lack of energy' is bonked out . If this is caused by a `lack of food,' he is suffering from hunger knock . A climber who is feeling nervous is being gripped .
In praising John Frankenheimer's earlier works, Ross is much too gripped by a childish auteuristic fascination with the technical aspects of what are very minor works.
Critics call it "richer and more profoundly disturbing than Anne Frank's journals" (Jesse Birnbaum, Time ). Peter Gay writes in the New York Times Book Review that "even the reader familiar with Holocaust material must be gripped by these pages" and that the book has a "concrete, vivid power that is, and I think will remain, unsurpassed."
After dissection, the tendons of the dissected fibers were gripped with small pieces of T-shaped aluminum foil as close to the ends of the fibers as possible.