Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Silvers turned to a young woman and her three-year-old son. He bent, down and asked the child, "What do you think it's like...
...York-to squeeze 3,000 new maintenance jobs out of San Francisco-serving airlines, create job opportunities in the post office, fire department, trade unions and in the Bay Area Rapid Transit's 75-mile construction project, which includes a tunnel under Market Street. Manhattan Banker David Rockefeller bent to Alioto's urging that a $250 million Embarcadero construction project -known locally as "Rockefeller Center West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point-the ghetto's first -where movies may be filmed and residents...
Autobiography is everywhere apparent. The fumbling, hesitant lover, the suicide-bent pessimist, the intellectual incapable of action, the Piedmontese boy who even in the city never loses his love for his native mountains-these are all Pavese. His characters are en gaged in a relentless search to figure out what it is they want from a prosaic life; that too was Pavese. He was a lonely man, and his narrators are lonely; they are wanderers, loving solitude and yet caught up in the senseless rush of people who have a need for febrile action, drink and meaningless sexual bouts...
...weeks before the match Junta began to talk quietly to each team member about the importance of winning against Yale. The Bulldogs had breezed through their schedule and were patiently waiting to polish off their Cambridge rivals. Harvard had won for the last two years and the Elis were bent on revenge...
Huston's problem as a director has always been indecision. His laconic humor and bent for undisciplined improvisation invariably takes precedence over careful development of theme through characterization and narrative. In The African Queen, the pretentions of melodrama cancel-out the element of romance, providing only an irritating absence of clarity of purpose. Considering its creators, The African Queen represents a sad, if entertaining, meeting of people whose careers were moving downhill. Bogart and Hepburn had made by far their best films, she for Cukor and Bogart for Hawks; Huston's reputation as a director grew deservedly tarnished...