Word: lent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME played brilliantly to the new American appetite. The magazine turned the news into saga, comedy, melodrama. The very compression of early TIMEstyle, invented almost entirely by Hadden, lent it an urgency of mannered telegraphese. John Martin, Hadden's cousin and an early writer and editor at the magazine, left this account of Hadden at work: "Brit would edit copy to eliminate unnecessary verbiage...If you wrote something like 'in the nick of time,' five words, he might change it to 'in time's nick,' three words...At all times he had by him a carefully annotated translation...
...eerie. Just getting the most coveted ticket in Washington--to dine with those two powerful heads of state--lent the evening an illusion of invulnerability: that all is right in the world because all is right at this moment. There was the President, charming and being charmed by the bicoastal Masters of the Universe: Steven Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong...
...system, normally stored in the council office in the basement of Holworthy Hall, is lent out to student organizations through the Campus Life Committee...
...objective" caricature constructed by The Crimson of Joshua Elster described him as a quiet and introverted individual. This vague, derogatory profile is just as easily placed on any one of us wrested from our abbreviated adolescence to labor in this warped microcosm we call Harvard. The characterization lent nothing to the issue and served to further pinhole Elster into a largely villainous portrayal. If the editors had any intention of accurately and honestly informing the student body, they would never run a story like this until they had more information than two lines in a police blotter and a couple...
...give a full view of Lotto, the bulk of whose work consisted of some 40 altarpieces in various towns in northern Italy--Bergamo, Recanati, Jesi. Neither these nor the masterpiece of his religious work, the powerful, almost neurotically emotive Lamentation, circa 1530, in Monte San Giusto, could be lent, and the result is a view of Lotto more skewed to his secular paintings--portraits, allegories and so on--than one might ideally have wished...