Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics will give us credit for stupidity. To them it is always a deliberate distortion." Indeed, even with the best of ability and intentions, reporters find it difficult to ensure that a story is totally sound. Nonetheless, conservative critics argue that almost beyond debate there is a discernible liberal bent among reporters and editors at the major national news organizations. ABC Interviewer Barbara Walters concedes, "The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition...
...Bereft of areas in which to maneuver, the Soviets seem to be waiting for a new President, and hoping that their stalling on the arms talks will assure the election of a President who is less of a hard liner and easier to negotiate with. Equally complacent and seemingly bent on their own hard line, the Russians seem equally agreeable to prolonging our present brand of confrontational politics...
...Nimmer of U.C.L.A. law school, said the "essential element" in the case is that "the underlying material is factual." Paraphrasing of fictional material would still violate copyright laws. Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt also did not quarrel with the decision but added, "The appropriate principles of copyright protection got bent out of shape by the tremendous newsworthiness of the Ford disclosures...
...heart attack in Live in Concert (1979) and building a hilarious routine out of his near fatal experiment free-basing heroin in Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), Pryor is here to tell you he has been off alcohol and hard drugs for seven months. Given his hell-bent lifestyle, that amounts to total conversion...
Compared to the students of the '60s who appeared bent on "solving the problems of the world 24 hours a day," Crowley says, "the students today seem to be enjoying themselves more and experience a more traditional variety of social life...