Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frank Zappa, leader of a wel known rock group that calls itself the Mothers of Invention, defines a groupie simply as "a girl who goes to bed with members of rock-and-roll bands." Zappa, a 28-year-old musician with a sociological bent, notes: "Every trade has its groupies. Some chicks dig truck drivers. Some go for men in uniform-the early camp followers. Ours go for rock musicians...
...electronics business. The Freedom Electronics and Engineering plant employs 33 full time workers, making computer power supplies, and assembling coaxial cable and plastic circuit boards. Opened in October 1968, the plant already has assembly contracts with Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA, and Western Electric, amounting to $800,000 gross sales. Bent on developing the division to the point where it is competitive with similar operations outside the ghetto, Williams predicts that gross sales will double over the next two months...
...team's remarkable winning streak is a tough act to follow-even for a dog show. Nonetheless, as the new New York Intangibles closed to within three games of the front-running Bullets last week, they seemed bent on only one goal: winning the very tangible $10,000 that would go to each player on the team that leads both divisions and wins the N.B.A. championship...
Hannes Graff and Siegfried Javotnik are Austrian students. They could just as well be undergraduates at Columbia, bent on bringing off a zoo bust for the seals in Central Park. At first they throb and chortle through the spring countryside on a huge 700-cc. Royal Enfield motorcycle. But even there they come face to face with cruelty and the law. Siggy, the idealist of the pair, fights with a milkman who is mistreating a horse. Trying to escape the police, he is killed crashing into a wagonload of honey-filled beehives...
...worried, however, that body awakening and sensory awareness were simply euphemisms for sexual looseness. He knew little about Freud, but he had a vague, unsettling feeling that what would happen would show men, and himself, to be nothing but sexual creatures, bent upon lust, and upon their own fulfillment. Much as the boy enjoyed the thought of this, he could not intellectually accept it as a way of life...