Word: lent
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...preserve the Union. Their achievements didn't last just a lifetime; they will last forever. Since Reagan left the presidency, an airport and an aircraft carrier have been named after him. The Postal Service has announced it will issue a commemorative Reagan stamp next year. Although his warm smile lent popularity to his economic-recovery programs, Congress should approach with caution a change to our legal tender. Let time and history judge whether Reagan should be given the final honor of appearing on U.S. currency. Anthony Mirante Philadelphia...
DIED. BERNARD GRANT, 83, longtime soap-opera star who also lent his voice to foreign films dubbed into English, including Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns; in New York City. Best known for playing Dr. Paul Fletcher on The Guiding Light for 13 years and Steve Burke on One Life to Live during the 1970s, he was also the unseen film voice for such actors as Yves Montand and Marcello Mastroianni...
...rolling out across Europe last week. It's too soon to say whether Fahrenheit 9/11 will change the way anyone votes or even energize the Democratic base. But there is a long tradition of American pop culture having a subtle and sometimes decisive influence over presidential politics. Frank Sinatra lent a cool cred to John Kennedy's 1960 campaign, and Ronald Reagan would probably never have captured the White House in 1980 without his well-honed Hollywood delivery. Moore's filmmaking may be coarse, but it is also incendiary and witheringly derisive - and it could be exactly what a generation...
DIED. ROBERT QUINE, 61, versatile punk guitarist who played with Lou Reed and Richard Hell; a suspected suicide; in New York City. As a button-down law-school graduate, he lent an intellectual image, as well as stylish guitar licks, to the rough rock scene of the 1970s...
...devote two prime decades to movie acting. And film work offered some returns on his investment. It lent Reagan the status of a marketable commodity. It landed him two actress wives: the first, Oscar winner Jane Wyman; the second, Nancy Davis, who would be his and America's First Lady. Acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue--speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion and still sound like plain-spoken common sense--a technique he used so persuasively in politics. And acting created the image of a pleasing persona: "Ronald Reagan," a collaboration...