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Word: bents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inspirational words to the crew: "I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong feelings about nuclear combat." The boys drop their new issue of Playboy, Slim replaces his flight helmet with a Stetson, and the crew is battle-ready, hell bent on serving their country by destroying the world...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Explosive 'Strangelove' Dazzles | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...cluster of syndromes. In computer users, the problem often starts in the muscles or tendons (the long pulley-like bundles of fiber that direct the movement of the fingers) and in the sheaths surrounding the tendons. Keyboards tend to force the upper body into unnatural positions -- hands bent, arms akimbo, wrists cocked -- straining the tendons and muscles and reducing circulation. Computer "mice" can be just as troublesome; users tend to grip the devices too hard, often with the wrist extended up, creating more work for the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Royal Pain in the Wrist | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...defending that status while the threat to her innocence, Mike the Playboy (Warren Beatty), was shadowed by Catholic guilt about his careless ways. (Remember those poignant visits to his wise old auntie's chapel?) These scruples served two functions: they heated up forbidden desires, and they gave a certain bent logic to the three-month hiatus the couple imposed on their affair, ostensibly to shed other commitments, really for the chaste contemplation of this one's radical implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Oh, Forget It | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

Upon returning to their cattle later that night, the Earps find that James has been murdered, and their cattle rustled. Bent on taming Tombstone and seeking revenge for the murder of his brother, Wyatt decides to take the job as marshal and hires his two brothers as deputies. Talking to his brother's grave, Wyatt speaks of his desire to clean up the town, "Maybe when we leave this country, young kids like you will be able to grow up and live safe." With this, Wyatt is established as the moral center of the film...

Author: By Jonathan Bonanno, | Title: It's A Western Classic, My Darling Clementine | 10/20/1994 | See Source »

...realized that we had overshot the mark. Liquor had reduced her judgment to where her affection for me didn't mean so much. And a few minutes later, when she asked me to stop the car and I helped her out and held her as she bent over and vomited in the curb, sex became the last thing on my mind, truly the very last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Good Old Monogamy That's Really Sexy | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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