Word: bender
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...AIMEE BENDER...
Whimsical and yet elegantly stark, Bender's narratives resonate like fables. A man encounters a colony of pocket-size people living alongside humans. A woman harvests children from a crop of potatoes. A boy born with keys on his hands instead of fingers spends his life looking for things (doors, security boxes, women) to unlock. Bender ensnares you with an enticing opening line--"The pumpkinhead couple got married"--and confidently leads you into her phantasmagoric realm from there. Thankfully she stops short of fairy-tale morals; in their place we're given sublime studies on sorrow, grief, kindness and love...
...digits; a bullpen that can hold a lead and a starting five with two aces. Clement has been a nice surprise, Wells has had his moments as has Arroyo, Wakefield?s been characteristically gutsy and Miller has shown that, when he regains full strength, he?ll be throwing a bender to be reckoned with. Damon certainly hasn?t let celebrity or wedded bliss go to his head (well, maybe he has, but he?s still playing great, turning in a salary-drive year for the ages). Tek, Trot, Manny, David: What more can you say? Bellhorn . . . well, Bellhorn...
...days used to be mostly an act of practical ritual (Jack Dempsey never shaved on the day of a fight) or of casual defiance, like the raggedness of the 1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five...
...Though Bender professed himself willing to brainstorm other solutions, he maintained that the College should not expand, noting that keeping acceptances constant in the face of an increased number of applications would allow Harvard to achieve greater selectivity...