They are all helpfully labeled on the film's Web site — Princess, Jock, Rebel, Heartthrob and Geek — and then shoehorned into a series of senior-year narratives, each one turning on a predictable but nonetheless gripping question.
The gripping question is whether the reel will now advance to the same government shutdown and the same happy denouement for the Democrats.
Bob Mankoff's How About Never – Is Never Good for You? (Henry Holt) is a charming autobiography that answers one of the minor yet gripping questions of magazine publishing: who gets to choose the cartoons in the New Yorker (he does), what's it like to submit one (nerve-shredding), and what percentage gets chosen (infinitesimal).
You ask yourself gripping questions: "Will people wear tux shirts as casual wear after all the banks fail?" "What if these were the last skinny-legged cords I buy?" "If we turn into a bankrupt Soviet-like regime, will these $115 cashmere mittens last me through the winter without heat in my apartment?" These kinds of thoughts fluttered around my head while shopping at the new Rag & Bone store.
I asked all the gripping questions.
A gripping local narrative that asks global questions.
For scrapping fossil-fuel subsidies can provide part of the answer to a question gripping much of the developed world: how to reduce global carbon emissions without damaging economic growth or living standards.
In the waning days of the mayor's race that wasn't, the question gripping the New York political world is not so much who will win on Nov. 7 but how Mr. de Blasio pulled this off.
It has been the question gripping South Africans for the last week: are the Gupta brothers citizens of their country, or not?
Amid the shock and volatility, the question gripping the country and its partners around the globe is: What happens next?
A1 Bayou's Secrets Revealed A note threatening suicide written by the chief financial officer of the Bayou Group, a hedge fund firm accused by prosecutors of conducting a $300 million fraud, answers in sometimes gripping detail the questions that have consumed Bayou's investors since it imploded a month ago.
