Word: bents
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...Duterte suffers from none of the charges that dog most Philippine politicians: that he is beholden to vested interests, obsessed with retaining power, or bent on accumulating its spoils. He is accepted and welcomed because he has delivered Davao from the bloody days of the 1970s and 1980s when the city was known as the murder capital of the Philippines. During the 21-year rule of strongman Ferdinand Marcos, the military spared neither the rod nor the gun to battle a spate of insurgencies, including one by the communist New People's Army (NPA). By the end of Marcos' reign...
...Teutonic theorist Siegfried Kracauer praised him for injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...
Despite the heated competition for theater space among the blockbuster wannabes this summer, art films are actually having an easier time finding homes. The country's top 75 markets all have art houses or artistically bent multiplexes where small movies are sought after. "The only time it's dangerous to open against a commercial film is when that film is by Scorsese or Soderbergh or the Coen brothers," says Jack Foley, distribution and marketing chief for Focus, which is releasing The Kid Stays in the Picture, a documentary about maverick '70s movie producer Robert Evans, opposite the Austin Powers sequel...
Crime (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), from L&O producer Dick Wolf, borrows not just L&O's cha-chung! sound between scenes but also its pro-prosecution bent. Made in cooperation with San Diego prosecutors, it finds raw drama in cases of murder and child molestation; after one verdict, a courtroom melee breaks out. As reality TV, it's riveting, addictive and well told. As a civics lesson, it's manipulative and tendentious. We have access only to the D.A.s, so the presumption of innocence, unpopular with crime-show viewers anyway, gets 86ed, and every emotional cue prods...
Moore became surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Harvard Medical School’s Moseley professor of surgery in 1948. He remained the chief surgeon for 28 years and retained his professorship until his 1981 retirement...