Word: bent
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Then there is the curious case of the judges who do not really matter. In ski jumping, judges can award as many as 20 points for a perfect jump, watching out for such sins of style as bent knees, curved backs, unsteadiness and crossed skis. They also look askance at failure to land with one ski in front of the other, knees flexed, hips bent and arms straight out at the sides -- the so-called telemark position, named after a region in Norway where the sport originated. The final score on a jump is made up of distance plus style...
...that aging is not synonymous with illness, that increasing years do not necessarily lessen desires or capabilities. That is a welcome surprise, particularly to the old. Muses Margaret Strothers Thomas, 72, a retired teacher from Philadelphia: "As a child I used to look at older people, and they were bent over, stooped and complaining. I can't believe that when you reach the age that you've feared you feel great." Achieving better health for longer requires a continual alertness to false assumptions about old age, whether they come from family, friends, doctors or the old. Declares Thomas: "I have...
...days he sat bent toward a microphone under glaring television lights, a small man with gray hair and rimless glasses who could pass for an apothecary. In fact, Jose I. Blandon had been chief political adviser to one of the most corrupt dictators in Latin America, General Manuel Antonio Noriega of Panama. Testifying before a Senate investigative subcommittee last week, Blandon said Noriega and his henchmen had turned Panama into a "criminal empire," a "gigantic machine" that generated hundreds of millions of dollars through drug trafficking, money laundering and gunrunning...
Movies like this used to show up about every third week. Back then, in the 1960s, they were called films, they came from Sweden and Italy and France, and they were taken Very Seriously. They bent the old-fashioned narrative line into a double helix, with sneaky dream sequences and complex flashbacks. You'd come out of an Ingmar Bergman film debating which part was fantasy and which reality, and what did it all really mean? Sexually, European dramas were less fettered than the Hollywood stuff; an art-film lover could get both stimulated and aroused. They were wonderful pictures...
...caution stems back to the Hemenway matchtwo years ago. It was then, during the era ofKenton Jernigan '87, that Princeton rolled intotown cocky, overconfident and hell-bent on crusingto the national championship...