Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laudible photograph of this style is Tsumago Children, In which the extreme focus of the background makes it appear entirely flat. Thus the position of the young girl is disquieting--she seems suspended in an awkward pose above the boy. The bent pipe which runs the length of this picture and the odd stance of the boy heighten the uncomfortable depiction of an impossible space...
...doubtful, however, that Widerman ends his wrestling practices in the same spirit that Bunker ends her classes: Head bent down, she speaks solemnly to her class, "I honor you with all respect. I honor you with my heart...
...unbelievable that America has bent over backwards to prevent the Syrians from leaving the coalition. How can we value a regime like Assad's as an ally, even in time...
...army unit in southern Britain to convince the Germans that the Normandy invasion would be directed toward the Pas-de-Calais, and it worked. The Soviets are the masters of military wile, although they do foul up at times. In the early 1970s, the U.S. spotted a Soviet "submarine" bent by a storm, a giveaway that the vessel was a fake...
Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, Gorbachev has bent to the hard-liners that have besieged him with demands for an authoritarian retrenchment. The big, bad bear is back, crushing unarmed demonstrators, establishing control, glutting the airwaves with propaganda--while 450,000 Soviet troops await orders from the Kremlin from posts throughout Eastern Europe. Suddenly, the regional power vacuum looms as a dangerous, unignorable challenge to international stability...