"Lipstick and Dynamite" traces women's wrestling back to 1939, when Gladys (Killem) Gillem first grappled with an opponent in a circus sideshow.
Over the past year or so Fabio Luisi, the Metropolitan Opera's increasingly busy principal guest conductor, has usually been ready to take over whenever James Levine, grappling with back problems, has withdrawn from a scheduled performance at the house.
State workforce agencies have successfully grappled with back benefits and Senate standoffs before.
When Nicole Nixon made the decision to become a full-fledged entrepreneur, she didn't spend years wrestling with the notion or months grappling with back-and-forth thoughts about it.
But this looks increasingly probable as Mr. Levine continues to grapple with lingering back pain and other health problems, and to withdraw from commitments.
The maestro Seiji Ozawa, the festival's artistic director, continues to grapple with chronic back problems in the wake of his surgery for esophageal cancer more than a year ago.
But there was more flexibility on the president's call for comprehensive immigration reform as the Republicans grapple with winning back Latino voters alienated by anti-immigrant legislation and hostile rhetoric from some Republican leaders.
