Word: bendingly
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What’s noteworthy about Lee is that she enters this world of bow-ties and rowing regattas ignorantly, having grown up in South Bend, Indiana and only learning of Ault through a publicity brochure. Her whimsical decision to study at Ault leads her on a “Wizard of Oz” type odyssey—one in which her Glenda never materializes and she, as Dorothy, must learn to single-handedly fight through heightened teenage trials...
...Sittenfeld portrays Lee’s adolescent angst as palpable and consistently believable, while guiding the reader through the colorful insight of a character who might be otherwise pegged as an awkward outsider. She wonders why she is no longer the confident 13-year-old she was in South Bend. Why has she allowed Ault to change her? She worries what her working-class parents will think when they see her acting so differently...
...rhetoric against the West and Israel, we cannot sit back and rely on Iran’s “guarantee” that it will play by the rules. Millions of lives cannot be staked on a hollow promise. Nor can the integrity and legitimacy of the UN bend to the “sovereignty” issues of one extremist state. Firm action must be taken, and ElBaradei must realize that if he truly supports peace— as his prize suggests— he must cease his faltering and stand up for peace’s sake...
...from the madness that was Mardi Gras in downtown New Orleans, developers are hoping to start a frenzy of their own-in real estate along the Mississippi River. The French, it turns out, knew what they were doing when they built the Vieux Carre at the bend in the river. That section of the city didn't flood after Hurricane Katrina, even after the levees broke, because it was on higher ground. Now, while homeowners in suburban New Orleans worry that neighborhoods will be bulldozed for parks and greenways, the moneymen are hoping to lure people back into the city...
...prime space in the sports pages with stories on baseball spring training. None of that, however, seemed to bother Arakawa during her free skate. After Cohen's spill-filled routine dashed the American's hopes for gold, the elegant Japanese scored five clean triples and a signature back-bend to notch a personal-best score of 125.32 in the long program. Slutskaya, who skated last, was no match and came in third behind Cohen. "One gold is worth 10 bronzes," a jubilant Kenichi Chizuka, head of Japan's Olympic delegation, told reporters in Torino. The national nightmare had finally ended...