Word: bending
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riverrun takes its title from the opening of Finnegans Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay . . ." The literary allusion is an unnecessary device; Korty's pace and McLiam's face are enough to supply this wry, wispy film with a valid life...
When the crews rowed past the 700-meter mark, shortly after the river's bend had completely compensated for the staggered start, the Crimson eight had at least a two-length lead on both of its opponents...
Charles H. Kuhl, a floor sweeper in South Bend, Ind., was a 27-year-old soldier in 1943 when the late General George S. Patton accused him of malingering and slapped him across the face with a pair of gloves-an outburst that may have cost Patton his command of the Seventh Army. Now that the film Patton, starring George C. Scott (TIME, Feb. 9), re-creates Kuhl's agony, the victim recalls: "As I started out of the [hospital] tent, he booted me in the fanny. They hid me in the litter bearers' tent until he left...
Amid some questionable changes in the NCAA competition format, the Harvard fencing team finished the three-day tournament this weekend in South Bend, Ind., in a tie for fourth place, as one Crimson foiled made the first All-American team, and a saberman made the second...
...prince's public line comforted Washington, but one high Administration official confesses that "we still don't know what Souphanouvong may be telling his half brother." Eventually, the Laotian government could bend to Communist pressure and ask the U.S. to stop the bombing. In that case, Washington would face a hard choice. It could either risk a political outcry by continuing the raids, or it could stop the raids and risk giving the North Vietnamese the opportunity for still greater mischief in the big war next door...