Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stairs aimed into nothing. I feel like I've walked into the closing scene of a tectonic morality play. Overhead, lights are just swinging into place over the balcony's edge. A crowd of performers is milling in the wings, brocaded and beribboned. In the pit a harpsichordist is bent over his instrument like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung and one wing dangling. Someone jostles the stringed spear of a chitarrone, and two primped and padded militaries saunter on stage left. This...
...upset that may reflect an increasing conservative bent to predominantly liberal Cambridge, three-term city council member Katherine Triantafillou lost her position after receiving the tenth-highest number of votes in a race for nine seats...
...agree, you haven't been reading the strip as religiously as you should (there's no excuse--it appears daily in the pages of this newspaper), or perhaps you find its relentlessly liberal bent tough to swallow. It's true that Gingrich was immortalized as a ticking bomb icon, Dan Quayle as a feather and Phil Gramm as a producer of low-budget porn flicks (wait, that last one was fact, not cartoon fiction). Republican presidents, in particular Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, have been subject to cuttingly funny mockery...
Unfortunately, two of those players were Adrian Smith and Paul Giblin. But 12 returning forwards, including co-captain Mike Bent (14, 9) and Tyler Garrow (3, 4), should be able to patch the holes on offense...
...have a strong artistic bent, but modern school is the enemy of creativity," he said. "And creativity is the essence of art, therefore I prefer art in a setting other than the classroom...