Word: lents
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...Metropolitan Museum is, one need hardly point out, a must for almost anyone who is interested in either drawings or bodies. All the same, it is not the easiest of shows. Its predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus or the epigastric veins of the abdomen. Nevertheless, anything by Leonardo, especially a group of studies as important...
This infectious credit sequence is the work of Wayne Fitzgerald and David Oliver, who lent similar magic to the title song from Nine to Five. The rest of Footloose is directed by Herbert Ross, and while it displays spasms of finger-popping vigor, the movie never lives up to-or survives-those first few minutes. Partly this arises from the picture's design. Though it is being marketed with the now familiar multi-media blitz, Footloose means to imitate Flashdance only in its box-office success. Ross and Screenwriter-Songwriter Dean Pitchford have set their sights much higher...
Some people paid $10,000 for a seat. Some simply accepted a seat to forget that they had lent the campaign $10,000, or two seats if they had been good for $20,000. And some friends, journalists and legislators were given reduced rates, ranging from...
DIED. Brooks Atkinson, 89, magisterial New York Times drama critic and Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Huntsville, Ala. From 1925 to 1960. Atkinson lent a cool, impartial presence to Broadway, interrupting his career to cover World War II and the postwar Soviet Union. After leaving the critic's chair, he wrote nearly a dozen books on the theater, travel and nature...
Some lies should not be lent even the scant legitimacy of refutation. But in this case, it is important to realize what a vast falsehood has been advanced--and to recognize that the money taken from hungry children has, in effect, been transferred to the military...