Word: bente
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...like a tree during the winter holidays. The background is pure black; the contrast in light and dark adds more whiteness and purity to the light, and thus more radiance. Yet it is difficult to overlook the man who carries this light. He stands in a relaxed position, head bent downward as if contemplating his costume of lights. His head directs attention towards the ground where the wires become one, flowing into a socket and then in to the corner of the photograph. The man in the picture is an instrument in the circuit; he provides the framework and carries...
...Columbia this past weekend, the Harvard women's basketball team travels to Princeton this coming Friday night with a justified dose of confidence. The Crimson (5-14 overall, 2-5 Ivy) won back-to-back games for the first time this year and made clear that it is bent on reversing its worst-ever Ivy start...
...enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing the U.S. (Us) of its ragged individualism...
Actually the source of their agony is the same person, a gushy and gauche young woman (Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma) on whom both of the men and the lesbian fix their romantic longings. The same bent for imagination that makes them so keen for the game lets them see undying devotion where only vague kindness is meant. Sweet but terminally insensitive and preoccupied with her own problems as the battered wife of a stalking husband, this unlikely femme fatale remains unaware of her allure until much too late...
Construction is a fact of life for a 358-year-old University bent on expansion. But finding a precedent for the $20 million renovation of the hall built to commemorate Harvard students who fought and died for the North in the Civil War stretches the memory...