Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Bush was bent on having a good time at Yale. Walker remembers walking home with Bush one night when his friend suddenly shouted, "Let's rock and roll--you rock and I'll roll!" Blocks away from campus, the someday Texas governor began to log roll down the street...
...Madrid muppet, makes you believe the oldest myth of cinema: that the magic is real, that movie people in person are as delightful, as bigger-than-life, as they are on the giant screen. Thus the truest compliment to pay his movies--those tangy, nourishing stews of bent men and brave women, of comedy and melodrama, passion and grief--is to say they are every bit as beguiling as he is. And the only thing to say about his new film, All About My Mother, is that it is even better: the most mature and satisfying work in a glittering...
...NEWHART and KELSEY GRAMMER have treated their fair share of eccentrics. Now that the two have joined practices for a movie, they are playing somewhat neurotic characters themselves. In the upcoming Showtime film How Doc Waddems Finally Broke a 100, Newhart plays golf enthusiast Waddems, a mild-mannered orthodontist bent on shattering that score. He finds a hazard in partner Howard Greene (Grammer), an overly fastidious interpreter of the game's rules, and the good walk turns murderous. Newhart, an avid golfer, claims his game surpasses that of the character he plays. "I had to come up with a lousy...
...tend to be the more laid back one," Sarah said. "I don't get too bent out of shape about a lot of things. Melissa is more of a perfectionist...
...Bent like an arthritic thumb high above the antarctic ice cap, the mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated...