Word: bend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discretion may have been imposed upon Lenny's creators by their obligation to protect his survivors. But the film is equally without insight on a less private issue. It fails to explore why sudden and belated celebrity can bend the minds of lifelong flops like Bruce. It afflicts such people with a belief that now, having paid heavy dues, they are entitled to act out all their long-suppressed fantasies of power. The failure to deal with this point lends credence to the lurking suspicion that the moviemakers prefer myth-making to truth-telling...
During the Security Council debate last week, South Africa gave several indications that it is indeed willing to bend on three specific issues that bother the black nations. Botha's mission issued a press release announcing that the Pretoria government will cut back the South African police contingent that has been propping up the white-supremacist regime of Rhodesia's Premier Ian Smith against attacks from Zambia-based black nationalist guerrillas...
Europe's soft underbelly may not be far from Communism's grasp. As Americans, we should ready ourselves for the possibility of a partial Communist takeover in Europe. We must either bend our idealism in favor of friendly co-existence or more actively support the anti-Communist forces in Southern Europe. Janice L. Morrison Leawood, Kans...
...with thermonuclear destruction if his demands were not met. In the movie's own stiff and militaristic terms, this was enough to establish the scientist's madness. Preparedness was quite the thing back then, and anyone who wanted to stop the arms race was probably round the bend. Considered today, Noon's scientist seems eminently sympathetic-a little extreme, maybe, but with his heart in the right place...
...Bend and Stretch. The Manhattan telephone directory lists 27 yoga instruction centers. One of the most attractive yoga studios is a converted loft organized by Dick Shea, 35, a sometime naval frogman, demolition expert and dancer, and Alan Levy, also 35 and a licensed chiropractor. Patrons come in for an average half-hour twice a week, to bend and stretch, arch their backs, swing their pelvises and breathe deeply, all at their own speed. They find that unlike conventional calisthenics, which tend to be exhausting, yoga renews their energy...