Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be allowed to follow the Egyptian flag into the Mitla and Giddi passes. Israel wants a guarantee that the passes be demilitarized if its forces pull out. Cairo is insistent that it owns the territory-"Sinai is ours, ours, ours!" proclaims an Egyptian officer-but seems willing to bend and accept demilitarization anyway. The Israelis, many of whom no longer regard Kissinger as their friend, believe that he has not told either side all the concessions that the other side is prepared to make and has a few goodies, like an Egyptian concession on the passes, in his pocket...
...long, bitter salary disputes of other years. Reggie Jackson held out for higher pay in 1970, Vida Blue in '72, and both say Finley humiliated them by publicly ridiculing their ability and their salary demands. Says Jackson, who was only 23 at the time: "Charlie wanted to make me bend. He wanted to show me who was boss." Finley showed him. Late that season, his rancor still running strong, Jackson hit a grand-slam home run. While crossing home plate he looked up and raised a fist of defiance to the watching Finley. The next day, in front of then...
...liberal childhood. Yet she never quite realizes that every generation is a product of the generation before it, and that her liberal parents--whom she characterizes as "America's professional, or enlightened, middle class"--are still influenced by the attitudes of their parents. Her liberal parents bend over backwards to avoid the mistakes their parents made, and if Decter was not so defensive about her own generation, she might find that it never grew up either--that her definition of adulthood as a state in which one is completely self-defining may be beyond the limits of human imperfection...
There is nothing undisclosed in Riley's paintings. All their components are there, and visible, down to the last small bend of a stripe. There are no accidental effects. Like Vasarely, Riley prefers to have her work done by assistants from a preplanned sketch, with every color shift worked out in advance. Yet the way the paintings work on the eye is unpredictable, and almost baffles analysis. As Art Critic Bryan Robertson put it, "We are creatures of habit and rarely fully stretched. Riley's paintings are alive with potentiality; they disrupt visual complacency and do not provide...
...musical segments together as Rossini, who constantly borrowed from old operas to write new ones, and who was so cavalier about detail that if a page of his manuscript fell to the floor while he was composing, he'd write a new one from memory, being too obese to bend down comfortably to pick up the original...