Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much so that it hardly bears mentioning. And yet, this simple logic is lost on a good deal of Americans, to say nothing of Americans, journalists. In movies, on television and in magazines, 'Arab' and `Muslim' are often buzz words for gun-wielding, grenade tossing, Qu'rantoting fanatics bent on destroying the imperialist, materialist Satan that is the United States. When was the last time you saw an Arab `good guy' on your television screen...
...crowd also shared a love for a certain five-leafed plant. We at FM politely refused several offers (having given it up for Lent), but benefitted from the effects of sitting downwind from a multi-generational trio who seemed bent on proving the old adage, "The family that smokes together, stays together...
...question of rent control with what can only be described as ideological fervor," said Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union, one of the groups opposing Fried. "This was someone who had an agenda, which essentially meant wiping out tenant protections, and he was essentially hell-bent on doing...
...second woman who spoke to Judge Tyler, an administrative assistant employed by Grace, recalled the morning that Bolduc popped into her office unexpectedly. She offered to bring him some coffee. "When I bent down to put the cup on the credenza for him, he reached over and ran his hand up my leg." This was no accident, she says. "He traditionally wears a Cheshire-cat grin on his face, and he was grinning then." In shock, she stalked out of the room and did nothing...
Though much of the recent work in gay studies has been remarkably political in its use of scholarship and sources, Out of the Past avoids this bent. While Boswell undermined the Christian condemnation of homosexuality and Shilts exposed government inaction and corruption, Miller is just providing a resource. Some might say that just claiming the existence of a gay and lesbian history is a political statement, but Miller's book proves that this is an invalid point. Out of the Past is an accessible, entertaining and thorough reference to a subject whose scope we are just now discovering...