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Rockefeller cornered the market on a natural resource simply by wrenching it out of other people's hands.
Besides the dialogue between Welsh and Witt, The Thin Red Line 's other organizing story involves a wrenching tug of war between Nolte's ambition-crazed Tall and Capt.
They say wrenching portrayals by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley set "a new standard for crackerjack Broadway teamwork" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Others call the score, by Dreamgirls writer Henry Krieger, un-catchy and uneven.
The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."
The WSJ says it's very unlikely Starr will bring criminal charges against President Clinton while he's in office, but that he will probably dump the matter into Congress' lap as a potential impeachment case, thus plunging the country into a "wrenching political dilemma" given the president's surging popularity.