Word: bents
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Annaud at first seems an odd choice for director. The variety of landscapes and eras in his Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
Fiering was also involved in assisting physicians at Peter Bent Brigham and Mass General Hospitals to analyze optical methods of controlling fluid loss from burn patients...
Gorbachev has reason to be wary of the court. Die-hard communists have been taking the stand to argue for lifting the ban on the party; some are clearly bent on implicating Gorbachev in the failed coup...
...decline and then offers us no compensating solutions or vision. In its stead, the play's program guide attempts to provide impromptu solutions to modern problems, including a revolution led by the Third World and women. An interesting thought, but it fails to be integrated into the thematic bent of a play dominated by Hamlet, a man constantly surrounded by women--even the "liberated" Ophelia--who dance for his pleasure...
...interview yesterday, the student said that when he refused to give money to the juveniles, one of them punched him in the face, knocking his glasses to the ground. When he bent down to retrieve them, the assailants kicked him repeatedly...