Word: bents
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...like the nauseatingly responsible, health-conscious clotheshorse that I am, I make a detour to another, less pricey boutique. Still bent on adding something resembling height to my five-foot- five-inch frame, I find myself a pair of stolid, thick-heeled two-and-a-half-inch pumps. And every time I wear them, I try to ignore their dependable chunkiness, telling myself I'm compromising mere aesthetics for something far more enduring: The ability to walk...
...Night has at her disposal three virtuous wonder-boys who help Tamino thwart the Queen’s plans after leading him to Sarastro’s temple. Nor is it obvious why Sarastro, that paragon of priestly piety, employs as his prison warden an old lecher bent on ravishing Pamina...
...quickly sealed off the highlands. At least 30 protesters were arrested. When foreign media were allowed in briefly last week, they were closely followed by a white van filled with local police. Officials blocked reporters' access to protest participants and downplayed the troubles, blaming it on Vietnamese exiles bent on toppling the Hanoi regime. "The extremists tried to trick the people, but their scheme did not work," says Nguyen Van Lanh, deputy chairman of the Dak Lak People's Committee. "Now, everything is back to normal...
CHINA. Beijing has been adopting soft-line tactics toward Washington and seems shocked to discover that this Bush is no comfy replica of the elder one. George W. has plenty of advisers who see China as the looming enemy, a military rival bent on asserting its dominance over the Pacific. Bush is sounding a hard note on human rights and has resolved to go ahead with a Pacific missile shield that Beijing opposes. But at the same time he is being tugged hard in the opposite direction by trade-minded business interests that want to preserve engagement and cooperation...
...Where NATO had been happy to fight alongside the KLA against the Yugoslav army in Kosovo, the alliance is now confronting those former KLA elements who are bent on destabilizing Serbia and Macedonia. Not only that, NATO has actually enlisted the help of the same Yugoslav army against which it fought in Kosovo. To the consternation of Kosovo's Albanian leaders, NATO this week asked Belgrade to send troops into the buffer zone inside Serbia established as part of the cease-fire agreement that ended the war in Kosovo. The symbolic significance of that decision cannot be understated...