Word: bents
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Despite the pop-culture bent of the book, Dowd avoids the trap of writing in the tone of a half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd...
...better than buying a pin-up. If the film stumbles with its main characters, it crashes to the ground with its politics. The writers make the villainous archduke’s guild a jingoistic metaphor for “anti-American” Europe. With this society of nations bent on crushing all possible threats on the path towards European world dominance, Campbell tries to capitalize on lingering American hostility towards a continent that vociferously opposed the war in Iraq. It’s ludicrous that an action-comedy would try to proselytize in the first place. It?...
...Vegas entrepreneur Valerie Bent, 36, for example, capitalizes on the male belief that women don't bluff to bluff big time. Bent partly financed the founding of her new clothing company, Big Feet Pajama, with her winnings at the casino tables. "I'd go with my husband on Friday and Saturday nights, dressed to the nines in my stilettos," she relates. "The guys would look at me like dead money--sure to lose. They flirt with you to keep you at the table--until you start winning. Then they get very quiet...
...somebody done peeped dere hole card," said the Kingfish. "The Clinton Administration said no way dey would fund a bilingual Ebonics program, and Maya Angelou and Jesse Jackson got all bent out of shape too. So the school board issued a statement sayin' dey wasn't settin' up a bilingual program, jist trying to he'p the kids learn standard English. But den dey puts in a paragirraffe dat convinced me dat the school board needs some he'p with its own English." He read, "'In the clause African Language Systems are genetically based and not a dialect of English...
...economic development. But this is only a partial explanation. Rather than poverty, it is the farmers' sense of powerlessness that sows the seeds of discontent. The central government has promised reforms that would give farmers more control over their lives. Those promises have been broken by corrupt local officials bent on keeping power and wealth for themselves...