Word: bend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fidel Castro as an intelligent person who is willing to bend although he still holds to his ideals. There is nothing wrong with that...
...Chicago's ravaged West Side, the Nathan Goldblatt School stops serving breakfast at 8:45 a.m. But occasionally food-service manager Diane Spraggs needs to bend the rules. One day last week a skinny seventh-grade boy showed up in the cafeteria five minutes late. "When I told him that breakfast was over, he started to cry," Spraggs recalls. "We couldn't turn him away." At Goldblatt, 85% of the students qualify for free food. Kids being kids, many proudly insist they could do without. Spraggs knows otherwise. "[They] don't want to tell you that they're not getting...
...Gramm had simply come out and said that he believed the poor did not have a right to challenge welfare-reform law in court, that the poor had no legal recourse and should simply bend to the will of the majority, his position would at least have been consistent. Instead, Gramm declared, "Poor people have the right to be represented, I agree, but not at taxpayer expense." While granting that the poor were entitled to go to court to challenge the fairness of a law, Gramm said, "Let them do it with their own money"--a statement so ironic...
...Sound of One Hand, which has played to packed theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which is bend and stretch like some contorted stork. His movements elicit eerie, tinkling notes from the computer-generated virtual instruments he is playing: a Cybersax, a CyberXylo and a Rhythm Gimbal...
Next, she is handed a long leather bull-whipand ordered to demonstrate her Catwoman skills.She snaps it lamely, and is criticized. The twohosts of the show bend over and ask the fallendeity to serve as their dominatrix. She whips themfor kicks. Their kicks, of course. Oh, how themighty have fallen. It's hard to describe. Youjust had to be there...