Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small plane landed to evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down to dab her lips with a moist cloth. After takeoff, the plane rose level with the white tops of the mountains that define Karabakh. The sounds of a war in progress fell away, replaced by the soft moan of one more of its victims...
These restraints -- and an early defeat for re-election in 1980 after initial liberal reforms had antagonized a number of interests, including the powerful timber and utility industries -- have reinforced Clinton's natural bent toward conciliation and compromise. Critics charge that he has been unwilling to fight hard even for programs that he knows are needed if they encounter strong opposition. Allies say he has shown a shrewd ability to focus on the attainable while avoiding battles he could not win. In any case, his record is a mixture of major accomplishments and severe disappointments. Some specifics...
...Apocalypse in the inventive French comedy DELICATESSEN, but the setting has the look of Gallic movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part...
...products. The fact is that basic science in this country is devalued. So I would increase the National Science Foundation and the basic life-science agencies, in essence say to young people around this country, "Science and technology is the future. If you have a bent in that direction, stay there. We are going to assure you a future...
...major-league baseball reacted with disdain to a Japanese offer to buy the failing Seattle baseball team. Baseball, said the game's commissioner, countenanced only North American ownership. It is a rather odd America-first policy that counts Canada as an American appendage. Odd too that a sport so bent on maintaining national purity should play in a park where Barry Bonds is announced as the "voltigeur de gauche" and the foul lines are demarcated in meters...