Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content to champion gay rights, HQ bent over backwards to become even more politically correct than it currently is (quite a fear). The recent issue examines not only the experiences of those ordinary bisexuals, gays and lesbians, but the experiences of African-American, Mexican-American and Jewish gays and lesbians. A veritable cornucopia of "difference...
...more moderate, policies are driven by Greenberg's surveys and focus groups. "Things like a two-year limit on welfare and three-strikes-and-you're-out on crime, we're all picking those up in our research," says Steeper. "Because the country is still of a conservative bent, the Clinton Administration is finding our ((Republican)) agendas and trying to take them away...
...heroic struggle. "Just because you have some of your dreams realized," she says, "doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be content." The hurt and the hope are evident in her new album's last cut, Shadow of Doubt, in which Raitt sounds like a Mississippi field hand, bent by age and travail: "Oh but Lord no/ Don't make it easy/ Keep me workin'/ 'Til I work it on out/ Just please, please/ Shine enough light on me/ 'Til I'm free from/ This shadow of doubt...
...instance, to use any information they might acquire, they would have to supply probable cause, go to a judge, and get a warrant--all in advance of using the Clipper chip. Though I would admit that there are exceptions to this procedure, and that, especially with the current bent of our Court, no one's rights are entirely secure, I think it was a severe error of Mr. Liu not to realize that such protections exist...
Steve L. Burt '93-'94 stands with his arms stretched between two dials on opposite walls of the small room. The commercial for the Middle East Restaurant trails off, and thundering rhythm fills the studio as Steve fades up the next song. He is bent at the waist, intently playing a heavily distorted air guitar, when the phone interrupts his gyrations. Kardhym Kelley '94 finds the next song on the second turntable and with a quick smile remarks, "Sometimes you don't have any idea what speed setting to play this music...