Word: bestowers
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...only one of many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel, where Prince Philip was to bestow the Winston Churchill Award upon Ronald Reagan. Why is it, Hitchens wondered, that Englishness looms so large in the American imagination, particularly among the rich...
Although some observers think that at 62, Rosovsky is too old to be considered in the presidential search, others say the Corporation is ready to reward his loyalty with the greatest gift it has to bestow. Rosovsky also proved this year that he had "the vision thing" by publishing a well-received book on the issues facing modern universities...
Lynch's true dream upstaged the real-life dramas from Eastern Europe that the festival had shown as a tribute to glasnost. The jury, headed by director Bernardo Bertolucci, did bestow subsidiary awards to films whose politics complemented their aesthetics. Taxi Blues, a Soviet-French coproduction about the convulsive friendship of a Moscow cabdriver and a Jewish jazz saxophonist, won the director's prize for Pavel Lounguine. Krystyna Janda was named best actress for her role as a woman undergoing state torture in Ryszard Bugajski's The Interrogation, a harrowing babes-in-bondage film that the Poles had suppressed since...
...think heavy metal is the musical equivalent of a Chuck Norris movie. Perhaps you think that "music" is too dignified a title to bestow on the crap those tatooed, oversexed no-talents turn out. And even those of you who resent these comments from your parents fancy that metal is just noise...
Tracy Chapman is serious about her smile. She does not bestow it lightly. Laughter, the same story. She covers her mouth when she laughs, as though to hide the fact that she is tickled about something. "If there is some major misconception about me," she says very seriously, "it is that I'm always serious." And then, a brief smile...