Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HEARTLAND is a small film, then, lent a kind of grandeur by its setting and the cheerful, unassuming invincibility of its characters. Blessed with the warmth and goodness of home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...
...WINDS are changing; the bloom is fading from false mandates," labor chieftain Lane Kirkland said Saturday. And the size of his audience lent credence to his words--close to 300,000 trade unionists were crowded onto the Mall in our nation's capital to say they were sick already of President Reagan's economic policies...
Harvard's general operating account--which has already "lent" MATEP $200 million--still may send more money across the river and down Brookline Avenue. But officials are not optimistic that the plant's thirst for funds is quenched. "In light of the fact that it now appears about a year away, we're really looking forward to the revenue, electricity and cogeneration," says Thomas O'Brien, the University's financial vice-president...
...yards of crinoline netting, and some old Carrickmacross lace given by Queen Mary to the Royal School of Needlework and used for the bodice. For borrowed, the bride wore a diamond tiara from the Spencer family collection, clasping her silk tulle veil, and a pair of diamond-drop earrings lent by her mother Frances Shand Kydd. Blue was a bow sewn into the waistband. For luck, there was a tiny 18-karat gold horseshoe tucked away in the voluminous skirts. The anxious Emanuels were stationed just inside the entrance of St. Paul's to give the bride the final...
...week's end a new allegation was raised against Casey. Carl G. Paffendorf, president of COAP Systems Inc., a computerized financial planning company, said that Casey had lent the company $100,000 in 1971-72 when Casey was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In return, claimed Paffendorf, he had given Casey a $10,000 interest in another computer firm, Penverter Partners. Casey had failed to report this gift in financial statements required for his Senate confirmation to head the CIA. An agency spokesman said Casey had paid "a nominal consideration" for the Penverter interest...