Word: bended
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Most endearing in spite of his sleazy role is Stanley Tucci. Though the ending could read as a reproach to Grigoris, he ends up on top, reigned in if not transformed. Like Robin Hood, he has the miraculous ability to bend morality and its most loyal adherents without making either immoral. By the end, one is convinced of the justice of his scheme since even with his cheating, there remians genuine goodness in him. It is hard to sort out what was what and who was right, but in the end they're all endearing. If robbing the rich puts...
...bend over, and I'll show you some [--]": (imp.) useful when challenging another's comment. "Wasn't the cusk at Annenberg divine tonight?" "Whatever. Bend over and I'll show you some cusk...
Pollard, 44, grew up Jewish in South Bend, Ind. He attended Stanford University and failed in a 1977 bid to land a CIA job. But two years later, the Navy put him on the payroll just outside the capital as a civilian intelligence analyst. He went to work assessing the Soviet navy but soon was granted top-level security clearances that essentially gave him a library card to the shelves holding the nation's most tightly guarded secrets...
...novel Bend Sister, Vladimir Nabokov has his hero, the philosopher Adam Krug, attempt to escape with his little son from a communo-fascist state in Eastern Europe to America. Krug imagines David growing into a teenager, playing the strange game of baseball. He imagines him as a man of 40. When David is killed by thugs, Nabokov himself cannot bear it: Krug goes mad, sees his creator is a benevolent artist, and the book ends...
Kick boxing, step aerobics and spinning went out with chunk heels and the Magic Hour. Perpetually en vogue Lowell House, however, provides the exercise class du jour. Learn to bend yourself into a Rold Gold at their weekly yoga class, but beware of the pose entitled "Down Dog." 5 p.m., Lowell House. FREE...