Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scholarly bent might have come from her grandparents, she says. Growing up in a sophisticated, well-educated Jewish area of Istanbul provided her with both her cosmopolitanism and, perhaps, the motivation to leave her native country for a scholarship at Brandeis. Today she returns to Turkey only for visits and has no plans to live there again...
...scholarly bent might have come from her grandparents, she says. Growing up in a sophisticated, well-educated Jewish area of Istanbul provided her with both her cosmopolitanism and, perhaps, the motivation to leave her native country for a scholarship at Brandeis. Today she returns to Turkey only for visits and has no plans to live there again...
...hell is other people"; here, hell is being stranded with this couple playing out their sad games. She smacks him around, dances in the nude, spits back his verbal abuse, rides him like an old horse. The two must have Alex as an audience for their displays of hatred, bent lust and mutual need. When he's gone they seem dead, spent, like marionettes after the show...
...began to circulate. News organizations quoted two witnesses as saying policemen held Grams down after he was captured and shot him to death at point-blank range. Said Joanna Baron, a sales-clerk at a station food stand: "Two policemen walked up to Grams, who was lying motionless. One bent over and shot him several times from close up. Then the second officer shot at Grams, but more at his stomach and legs. He shot several times." The subsequent medical examination supported eyewitness accounts: it showed that the shot that caused the fatal wound to Grams' head was fired from...
...TERMINATOR VS. SARAH CONNOR: In The Terminator, he comes from the future bent on killing her. In Terminator II, he comes from the future bent on being a father figure...