Word: lent
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...Guinness lent its name to a TV series hosted by David Frost, which was later broadcast on India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined...
Quannam artists are making a name for themselves for having engaging and innovative live shows, and this tour was no exception. In addition to the usual vinyl beats, a male and female soul singer lent their vocal talents to the various artists, bringing a more human connection to a lot of the material. The two volcalists are a common presence at Blackalicious shows, and one of the singers, Joyo Velarde, is even releasing her own album on the label soon...
...Greedy's, Ko Myo lent me his copy of 1984, one of a collection of banned or sensitive books that he disguises in brown paper and risks another lengthy prison term for circulating. I reread it one afternoon in my hotel room with the curtains drawn, emerging hours later to discover that two military-intelligence agents were harassing the staff about my identity and movements. Their timing was unnerving. Orwell's "Hate Week" parades have a modern Burmese equivalent. Mass rallies had been staged at stadiums nationwide to support a "road map" to democracy launched by Khin Nyunt...
...this might have lent Strange Bedfellows complexity and subtlety. Instead, it just gives the quintessentially blokey star of Crocodile Dundee the chance to camp it up; Hoges in hotpants! How does a comic pitch this potentially lively fall so dead in the water? It's tempting to blame young writer-director Dean Murphy. He has a sunny knack for observing gossip ricochet around a country town, but he lacks the worldly insight and satirical snap of a Wilder. When Vince and Ralph are instructed how to walk the talk ("Marilyn Monroe crossed with a bit of penguin"), it's like...
...spastic “KC Accidental” lent some power to the beginning of their set, with its start/stop guitar and manic drum breaks reminding the crowd why they had waited for several hours in sauna-like conditions to hear Broken Social Scene. The band proved that they had truly arrived with “Stars and Sons,” a plodding song accentuated by periodic bouts of clapping that got a room of hipper-than-thou indie types involved in some fashion of audience participation, if not actual dancing...