Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin's Press; 228 pages; $15.95), the ferocious actress is joined by such other real-life viragoes as Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman. Baxt's comic turn mingles the actual and the imaginary like a pun-obsessed spin-off of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and has a similarly political bent. Set in 1952, it sketches deft parallels between the paranoia induced by a serial killer and the mania generated by McCarthy-era blacklisting. The plot is merely serviceable and the cast of characters sprawling rather than sharply defined, but the machine-gun barrage of witticisms from its formidable ladies...
...insist on reading this review, bent perhaps like some insane TF exam grader on extracting and assessing information from a piece of writing that, by rights, should not exist, I will go on. I will demonstrate, point by point, exactly why The Couch Trip blows...
...goes well, nobody gets bent out of shape...
...both good news and bad news for the West. A recognition of the need for nuclear sufficiency rather than superiority was welcome, especially if it meant that the Soviet Union might be coaxed into retiring some of its most threatening weapons. The bad news was that Moscow still seemed bent on increasing its influence in Europe -- and on using its huge conventional military strength...
...meant it when I said it because under previous leaders they have indicated their program was bent on expansionism, on going forward toward the Marxian philosophy of a one-world communist state," the President said. Under Gorbachev, however, he said, "There seems to be an entirely different relationship...