Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly couldn't go to his house or my house. Our parents would have killed us!" According to the quaint ritual of the time, families would park in the front rows, teen-agers who were just dating would take up the middle rows, and those who were bent on serious petting would head for the darker areas in back. Most teen-agers now have other ways of finding privacy and are less likely to need the excuse of going to the movies...
...singing, too, came in for heavy criticism. Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern has a rich resonant voice but brought little sense of Wotan's majestic agony to his portrayal. After Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, he canceled his appearance in Siegfried and was replaced by a weak Bent Norup. Poor Manfred Jung, the substitute Siegfried, is physically unprepossessing and vocally inadequate to this most heroic of heldentenor roles, which demands both strength and stamina. Although he gave it a game effort, especially in Götterdammerung, Jung put one in mind of Scholar-Critic Ernest Newman...
Japan's, internal rivalries have gone largely unnoticed in the U.S. and Europe, where attention has focused on the aid and guidance Japanese industries receive from the government. Western commentators talk of Japan Inc., implying that business and government have banded together to form a monolithic powerhouse bent on overrunning world markets. Critics such as Senator Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan and W.J. Sanders III, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, a California semiconductor company, complain that Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Mill) encourages the formation of cartels and also targets promising industries for special research...
...Americans this year than any other country save Britain. Despite increases of 10% or more for air and train fares, hotel, meals, gasoline and other tourist essentials, Americans, taking advantage of the favorable exchange rate, are spending more time and money in Italy than ever before. For returning visitors bent on escaping the usual roster of sun, sea, pasta and churches, cultural organizations like Alcatraz (no connection with the San Francisco penitentiary) offer courses in such offbeat subjects as ceramics and theater furniture making. Cooking courses abound, notably New York-based Marcella Kazan's in Bologna...
...apparent multiple sources of Carter campaign papers reaching the Reagan team, however trivial much of them seemed to be, fed the suspicion of those with a conspiratorial bent that a political espionage operation may have been conducted by the Reagan aides. To Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory, the incident reinforced her theory that "Republicans think of political campaigns as war-in contrast to Democrats, who see them as sporting events...