Word: bending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benvenuti, the Italian fishmonger's son who took away his 160-lb. title last April. For starters, he was going to reshape Nino's roamin' nose. "I'm going to hit it and hit it and hit it," vowed Griffith. "I'm going to bend it. Then I'm going to knock him out." Bene, sighed Benvenuti, quaffing his Chianti-let him try. If it was a Pier Sixer that Emile wanted, Nino would oblige. "The first fight was rough," he said. "This will be rougher...
...regime seems nervous and uncertain about just where to bend and where to bristle, and the result is an unevenness in both the progress and the retrogression. Because of censorship, Czechs never get to see some of the best movies turned out by their talented directors; among the films that have not yet been screened in Czechoslovakia are Věra Chytilova's audacious Daisies (TIME, June 23) and Antonin Masa's Hotel for Foreigners. Few Czechs have been permitted out of the country to see their highly touted pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal...
Moreover, Strawberry Fields, with its four separate meters, freewheeling modulations and titillating tonal trappings, showed that the Beatles had flowered as musicians. They learned to bend and stretch the pop-song mold, enriched their harmonic palette with modal colors, mixed in cross-rhythms, and pinched the classical devices of composers from Bach to Stockhausen. They supplemented their guitar sound with strings, baroque trumpets, even a calliope. With the help of their engineer, arranger and record producer, George Martin, they plugged into a galaxy of space-age electronic effects, achieved partly through a mixture of tapes run backward and at various...
...since his college and graduate days at Howard and American universities, he worked in the city's housing authority for 25 years, becoming chairman in 1961, a post he held until he moved to New York last year. In both cities, he was known for his ability to bend supposedly unbendable bureaucratic rules to get new low-income housing built, and to bring a sense of esthetics to that ugly duckling of American architecture. His wife Bennetta, now head of the Women's Job Corps, was formerly principal of Cardozo High School in one of the district...
...which the students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...