Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some instructors were openly hostile to women. Not being of the scientific bent, I was thrilled to discover that I could meet my scientific requirement with a course in geography. I had been warned that Mr. Kemp, the instructor, was a rabid misogynist, but I couldn't believe that a university as prestigious as Harvard would tolerate such a thing. So two of my friends and I signed up for the course. Mr. Kemp took an instant and immediate dislike to my two friends. He would call them "sister," openly disparage what they said in class, and gave...
...about a fellow plucked from obscurity who becomes a star when his life airs live on a 24-hour cable series, and Gary Ross's Pleasantville is about a couple of siblings who get stuck in a '50s sitcom. Shades of Groundhog Day: sophisticated variations of media-bent virtual reality...
...every tempo, the sad soul of it as well as the brash, brassy swing. Or maybe his need to graft his life onto every song he sang was an unintended effect of his artistry, a scramble to find personal corollaries for every melody he molded, every lyric he bent to his own will and purpose...
...gentle, gentlemanly way. His title comes from Sir Walter Scott's lines about the "tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive." In assessing Nixon and Kissinger, Bundy comes to the unsurprising conclusion that "the taste for acting secretly was obsessive" and that an "unshakable bent to deceive" undermined their accomplishments...
...kill you--everyone, that is, but tobacco executives themselves! In 1996 they raised their nicotine-stained right hands before Congress and pleaded ignorance, a perjury charge Ken Starr could get his teeth into, if only he were not already representing these guys. When subpoenaed documents revealed an industry hell-bent on hooking kids, even tobacco's core congressional defenders blanched. Gingrich vowed he would be tougher than the President. The McCain bill, which raises the price of cigarettes to reduce teen smoking, sailed through the Senate Commerce Committee...