Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most choreographers, Fosse spun his idiosyncratic moves out of the peculiarities of his own body. "He was a bit bent and crooked by nature," recalls Reinking, "and somewhat pigeon-toed." The style that resulted, says Fosse dance captain Brad Musgrove, was the antithesis of the expansive approach of classical ballet: "It's all turned in. You're knock-kneed, you roll over on your ankles, you're sitting into your hip, you're arching your back, the elbows are in, the wrists are flexed. You have to work exactly the opposite from the way you're trained...
...anyway. After a heated auction last month, Pocket Books won the rights to Kept in the Dark: The Killer Connection Between Sleep and Food. The advance was just north of $200,000, a surprisingly hefty sum for a nonfiction book by two unknowns (T.S. Wiley, a medical researcher, and Bent Formby, a cell biologist...
...said she wanted the trial to start soon--in the next two weeks--and to end quickly, Lott agreed with her. And when Collins said she didn't want the impeachment debate to become a food fight as it had in the House, where Republicans came across as hell-bent on forcing Clinton from office, Lott agreed again. He may not have addressed all her concerns, but, says Collins, "I was really pleased...
...looked dignified on television. In a flurry of ceremony Thursday, the 13 House managers were sworn in, Judiciary Committee Chair Henry Hyde read the two articles of impeachment, and Chief Justice Rehnquist was sworn in as judge by the Senate's own Methuselah, Strom Thurmond. Then the Senate jurors bent and signed the oath book, each getting to keep his own ceremonial pen. With a tap of Rehnquist's gavel, the historic moment was complete, and Senators could get back to their squabble...
...decorations that grace the Harvard campus are quite often the work of spirited individuals, not a dictatorial administration hell-bent (if you'll excuse the pun) on religious conformity...