Word: bendere
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...Berry and Frankie Lymon were some of his contemporaries, but the singer who really knocked Jackie Wilson out was Al Jolson. Jackson may dance like Baryshnikov straddling a jackhammer, move like a street blood steeped in Astaire and t'ai chi, sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves the Beatles...
Citing "a certain amount of interest" in the Ivy League teams in general and Harvard specifically because of the caliber of Carrabino and Ferry. Duke Assistant Coach Bob Bender said, "I think everybody's looking for a school like Harvard--there's a certain appeal Harvard would have...
Asked how he felt the Crimson would line up against NIT squads. Bender responded. "It how they played against us was indicative, they'd be a very worthy competitor...
...more than in West Germany, the pragmatic realization of the need for coexistence with one's opponent in the nuclear age, was unfortunately extended into the wholly illusory and dangerous idea that peace required an end to ideological and moral confrontation between free and totalitarian societies, that as Peter Bender, an intellectual close to the SPD puts it, the "ideological era has come to an end." It was this decade long process of unilateral moral and political disarmament which contributed a great deal to the utopian confusions that have surfaced in Western Europe concerning the nature of the Soviet Union...
Grenada has been more quiet than serene for the past couple of weeks, like a drunk sobering up after a bender. A kind of national hangover would be understandable: the tiny country has just endured four years of supercharged socialist revolution, a week of political chaos, a U.S. invasion, then a few giddy days simply feeling liberated. But what happens next is uncertain, and Grenadians and the American invaders both seem to be getting cranky. Military occupation, no matter how well intentioned, is never pleasant. "For the fact that the U.S. came, I say thanks," remarks Kevin Williams of Grand...