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...Skinner bent over backward to keep the Isaacs case in the courts. Harvard is bending over backwards to keep another case out of the courts...
...might have been heavy handed under another's direction are saved from melodrama by Benton's understated humor. When Moses, a born whistler in the dark, looks at the farm devestated by the storm with shutters and doors and broken glass lying everywhere, he says brightly. "Everything's little bent, but it's still here...
...Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young University who wants to become a news anchorwoman, Wells bristles at the suggestion that her conservative views helped her win the crown. "It seems that the media are bent on forcing everything I say into their Miss America mold," she complains. "The judges never questioned me about my views on morals, religion and social mores." And it seems unlikely that relieved pageant officials will ever have...
...Kennedy returned from Puerto Rico, where he had been managing editor of the English-language San Juan Star, to write features for the Albany Times-Union. He soon found himself walking a picket line as a member of the striking Newspaper Guild. In The Ink Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such...
...Harvard's hopes became more and more faint. Columbia dealt the death blow to the Crimson in the 78th minute with the most beautiful goal of the game. McCarthy, taking a free kick on the left side about 23 yards from goal, pushed the ball over to Gayle, who bent a Brazilian-style volley into the path of an onrushing Skeene near the right corner of the goal. He finished the triangle by heading over Ginsburg into the left side of the goal...