Word: bender
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Religion. The court is "winding up to permit a lot more religion in public life," says Arizona State University College of Law Dean Paul Bender. Observes Virginia's Howard: "For 15 years, the court has been trying to water down the strict separation of church and state." During the past two terms, the court has sought in its opinions to "accommodate" religion in state-supported activities as long as the practice does not represent a "real danger of establishment of a state church." For this reason, in a decision widely regarded as a bellwether, the court earlier this year...
...boys tipped the scales decidedly in their favor. No doubt about it: the Jacksons' tour is a real show-business extravaganza, a four-star eye-glazer and ear-bender replete with laser effects, magic tricks, assorted marvelous machines, sundry intermittent detonations, a finale full of fireworks... and, oh yes, a healthy portion of good solid funk. Soul Train meets Star Wars on the outskirts of Las Vegas. A lot of-quite literal-bang for the buck...
...kind of sackcloth-sneakers, work pants, sweat-stained shirt. He allowed his teeth to rot. When anger and frustration built up in him, he would smash his fist into the nearest wall or bloodily shatter the glass he was holding. "Nearly all the time," he wrote after one bender, "I am incompetent for work, or for thinking of work, or of anything except crawling around in a whisky-logged blur...
Many bicyclists are hit by cars each year, but they too can cause accidents. A driver's first reaction when a bike appears unexpectedly in front of him is to swerve or hit the breaks. The bicyclist may escape unharmed but leave a fender-bender or a far worse casualty in his wake...
...Berry and Frankie Lymon were some of his contemporaries, but the singer who really knocked Jackie Wilson out was Al Jolson. Jackson may dance like Baryshnikov straddling a jackhammer, move like a street blood steeped in Astaire and t'ai chi, sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves the Beatles...