Word: bent
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Persuading Israel to deal with the P.L.O. as currently constituted could be still more difficult. Begin regards the P.L.O. as a terrorist gang bent on Israel's extermination; it will take more than words to change that opinion. Indeed, his government launched the invasion of Lebanon largely to destroy the P.L.O. as a force in Middle East politics. Seeing the organization emerge from the wreckage of Beirut with new respectability would thus, in Jerusalem's view, amount to letting a brilliant military victory turn into a galling political defeat. There is a worldwide suspicion, too, that Begin...
Pagan's suicidal bent, according to Scotland Yard, was what led him to appear at the Queen's bedside with a piece of broken ashtray in hand, dripping blood on the bedclothes from a cut thumb. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Dellow, who carried out the investigation, reported that Pagan's movements had been more extensive than earlier accounts had indicated. Fagan got inside, Dellow said, by climbing a railing near the gates to the Ambassadors' entrance at 6:45 a.m. He was spotted by a policeman, but in the first breakdown of communications, the police...
Back in West Beirut by sundown, at the shelled stadium. The topmost stands are crumbled like stale cake. The poles, where pennants flew, are down or bent. Great fissures mark the walls. The clock and Scoreboard are stopped cold. Gray stones are piled like giant's chalk, where steps were, where thousands upon thousands roared for the winners. A dog scavenges in the shadows. More shots from somewhere. Near by, a bomb crater filled with water serves the people as a swimming hole...
Indeed, Hollywood may be bent on disclosing more than anybody could possibly absorb about the stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...
Given their bent, movie stars naturally give the stories of their lives many cinematic touches. Their accounts frequently take on the tone of melodrama or soap opera. Lauren Bacall watches her new lover Humphrey Bogart go home to his wife from the set of To Have and Have Not: "When would I see him? When would he call? How could he stand to be with that woman? How could he stand not to be with me?" Young Henry Fonda looks up at the suddenly dark window of the apartment in which he believes his wife Margaret Sullavan to be consorting...