Word: bents
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...inherent danger lurks when images are treated as something substantial, because misperceptions lead to poorly targeted would-be solutions. In this case, entertainment-based strategies have failed to draw masses of youth wholeheartedly into the political game. As a result, both the media and politicians have assumed a moralistic bent, exhorting young people about the power of one vote. The electoral crisis in Florida provided an excellent opportunity to harp on the importance of one vote. "Your vote can turn the tide of an election!" screamed the Gore e-mail service, continually alluding to the 1960 election in which John...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its lustrous list of Oscar 2000 nominees. For weeks studio execs have been clambering to raise their products' profiles to catch the attention of Academy voters. Seducing Academy members with gifts is officially banned, but rules were meant to be bent. Here's a look at how studios are stumping...
...toughest prisons, and exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent on "justice" to comprehend the power of treatment...
...smoke up, and the movie is tinged with a sense of the futility of the whole "war on drugs" business. But the cops, from the Mexican policeman caught up in corruption to the DEA agents trying to bring down a San Diego drug lord, are no club-wielding goons bent on spoiling everyone's fun. Instead, they are the movie's heroes--soldiers on the front lines of a war that cannot be won, but a war that must be fought...
...through the day Gibson's staff in Memorial Hall was hampered by break-downs of encoding hardware and by torn and bent cards that became jammed in the machines...