Word: bente
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...sole overreaching policy the international community has proffered, is an ineluctable shambles. Lord Owen himself, co-purveyor of that % scheme, which proposes to divide Bosnia into 10 provinces drawn along ethnic lines, acknowledged last week that bombing Serb supply lines may be necessary after all. "If they are hell-bent on taking other towns, then we will have to meet this assault on Muslim towns with military action," he said...
...most discerning epitaph: "You have a knapsack, and all the time you're growing up they keep stuffing promises into the knapsack. Pretty soon, it's just too heavy to carry. You have to unpack." As the author acknowledges, almost all of Denny's generation have found themselves bent with expectations that will never be realized. Unpacking, Trillin provides a class act in every sense of the word...
...catalog confirms the academic bent of the show, with essays of such jargon-filled obscurantism that they go beyond parody. Thus Avital Ronell: "What impresses itself upon us is the fact of finitude's excessive nature, not only because of the inappropriability of its meaning but, as the experience of sheer exposition, because of the way it refuses to disclose itself fully." One would bet $5 that neither David Ross nor anyone else connected with the Biennial could say what such gibberish might mean or translate it into clear English. But that would be a hegemonic transgression on the integrity...
...Bush appointee Dick Thornburgh left as U.N. Under Secretary-General of Administration and Management, Boutros-Ghali tried to take the influential position from America and give the U.S. a frilly public relations post instead. An American official in the U.N. complains that it's "a very clearly anti-American bent." However, with just one superpower left in the world, Boutros-Ghali may feel that a little bureaucratic kryptonite is exactly what is needed to maintain the U.N.'s equilibrium...
...team often depicts his conflict with the Congress as a struggle between good and evil, pitting democrats against communists and fascists. In reality, most experts believe, there is little chance of a restoration of the old-style Soviet rule. But other forms of authoritarian rule or even a dictatorship bent on reversing the reform process are possible. It is obvious that Russia is not on the fast track to transformation into a democratic, free-market society. The unadventurous new Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin, a veteran industrial manager, speaks of the need for a "pragmatic, down-to-earth" approach to change...