Word: bente
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...cheers and jeers. Campbell soup-can silk screens ladeled him with fame, becoming artistic beacons gazing at life's banal objects with a wan, reportorial eye. Turning to moviemaking, he lifted the underground cinema's popularity to new heights while sinking the contents to sadistic depths. His bent is parody and plotlessness, and he has a whimsical flair. Sleep shows six hours of just that; Empire, eight hours long, stars the Empire State Building. ****-the title spoofs film ratings-originally lasted all day and night...
...citation: "A voice of reason in a turbulent time; a determined leader unfailingly bent upon insuring equal opportunity for all our citizens...
...difference between Berkeley and Columbia is quantity not quality. The feelings are the same, but this year more people have them, and they are deeper. The reason for this is the self-destructive bent of Establishment liberalism. Throughout the year, the government and the universities have managed to "radicalize" large numbers of students, to turn cool liberals into hot radicals...
...only thing in strike-bound Paris that seemed to be moving slower than the traffic last week was the peace parley on Viet Nam. U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators held a single 2-hr. 57-min. session at the Hotel Majestic, then adjourned for four days. Hanoi was clearly bent on emulating the tactics of Fabius Cunctator (the delayer),* the Roman general who wore down the more powerful Hannibal by his endless harassing tactics. The long break was occasioned in part, a Hanoi spokesman explained, by the fact that Ascension Day was approaching, "and since we translate 'ascension...
...border. On the one plane that did not get away, the B-25 that had bombed Port-au-Prince, the government claimed that it had found anti-Duvalier leaflets ("Down with crime! Down with misery! Down with Duvalier!"), implicating New York's Haitian Coalition, a group of exiles bent on Duvalier's overthrow. To try to fix the blame, Duvalier had the eight prisoners flown to the capital and grilled them personally for eight hours. Then, wearing camouflage uniforms with tags obscurely reading "Big Game! Styled by Broadway," they were marched off-presumably to their execution. At week...