Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Church officials had hoped that a little holy competition would force Denver's 18 private funeral homes to lower costs. Instead, threatened local undertakers seem bent on raising an unholy row. They have complained to the Colorado attorney general, charging the tax-free church with unfair business practices. The archdiocese, in a conciliatory move, has offered to pay taxes on any income from the mortuary. Says Martin Work, the archdiocese's director of administration: "There's plenty of business...
Indeed, at times this year baseball has seemed bent on presiding over its own funeral. More than 50 game dates were lost because of the strike, and fan interest has clearly waned. Attendance for both leagues was down more than 2,000 a game, an 11% decrease from prestrike levels. When compared with the same dates last season, the figures were gloomier still: average attendance dropped...
...turned into frogs. This relentless and terrifying movie is about how the organs of the state-acting in the best interests of society really-can do that to a man. For Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) knows that in enforcing the law, he and his partners have also bent the law. They have supplied confiscated drugs in return for help from junkie informers. Some of the money they have found on arrested dealers has ended up in their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that of New York Detective Robert Leuci a decade ago-knows much, much more...
Enter the handsome aviator (Peter Coffield) and his passenger, the daredevil Polish acrobat Lina Szczepanowska (Patricia Elliott), Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...
This side of Browning's April, the Edwardian era was the best of times to be in England, especially if one was well heeled and of sportive bent. The nation basked in the golden autumn of Pax Britannica, with almost nothing to grouse about but the grouse (not enough of them). For Americans who could afford the fare, the country was the social and cultural equivalent of a well-stuffed hamper from Fortnum & Mason. So is Mr. American, a splendidly entertaining English adventure novel of the old school...