Word: bents
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...thousand actors. Thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum. One single 95-minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...
...Tuck the right leg under the left leg. At this point, your hands are behind you and your knees are crossed and bent...
...don’t profess to understand how President George W. Bush thinks. From a distance, though, he does seem irrationally hell-bent on invasion. This determination defies any goal-centered mode of thinking: there is, after all, no plan—at least no public plan—for restoring stability in Iraq after a war, nor is there an exit strategy. No one seems to know what will happen after an invasion, what Bush wants to accomplish or what each American soldier will be trying to implement. Conventional logic fails. So what sort of logic is Bush using...
...drawings, 567 prints, 10 sculptures and three murals. The large number of prints reminds us that much of what this master of violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found...
...sale of a food conglomerate. So it's not surprising that he shows no signs of giving in, or of selling off his media outlets. Nor is he rushing to fulfill a campaign pledge to implement a system of independent controls on these holdings. In fact, Berlusconi seems bent on expansion. Fininvest, the Berlusconi family holding company, bought shares in several banks and raised its stake in the Spanish network, Telecinco, to 52% from 40%. In early February, the Prime Minister's oldest daughter, Marina - a vice president of Fininvest - was named boss at Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing house...