Word: bent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this week--shortly after lunch on Dec. 23, 1947--the Digital Revolution was born. It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
...Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame that Amistad's release has been polluted with charges of plagiarism, for what's on the screen has an emotional and moral weight that is entirely...
...Bent's cumulative effect is an extremely heavy, painful and unhappy one. For those who feel that this is appropriate for a film that chronicles atrocity, it will undoubtedly be a fulfilling experience. But those who prefer to be entertained as well as educated may find something lacking. The acting is generally good; unfortunately, that's not quite enough to make things work overall...
Students will vote whether to revert to the council's more traditional focus on student services or to push forward the socially progressive bent forged by current president Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 and her predecessor, Robert M. Hyman...
...just to Diebenkorn's forthrightness as a painter but to his delicacy as well. And it survives even in the little still lifes, which are hardly more than visual nouns--a glass of water on a gray cloth, with orange poppies in it; a knife in another glass, bent by refraction--rendered with the immediacy and verve one associates with Manet's asparagus and peonies...