Word: lent
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...show stayed true to its name; like a diptych—two parallel wooden panels connected by a hinge—the main characters’ stories were separate and dissimilar, yet convened on a singular theme of anger that emerged throughout the play. The complexity of that theme lent uncommon depth to its characters, and made “Diptych” a moving exploration of the human condition...
...muddles - in which the firm's otherwise respectable clients find themselves embroiled. The partners are grateful for his services, and don't care to know too much about his methods. Or his extra-curricular activities, which include a gambling habit and an $80,000 debt to the mob, who lent him money for a bar that his feckless brother ran into the ground...
...There was about Harvard Square a sense of grunge, a sort of counterculture that was reflected nicely in some of these dining places.”John J. Koenigsknecht ’91 also appreciated the Square’s unique flavor. “It lent more to the atmosphere of you being in Cambridge, you and your buddies crammed into the same deli,” he said.But one by one, these unique eateries disappeared, victims of rising rent costs. Bartley’s only survives because, according to proprietor Joe Bartley, “We have...
...hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character he played in five films, lent the cop film an antiheroic attitude the genre still can't shake...
...with Jacobi and Rylance, signatories include Charles Champlin, the former L.A. Times arts editor; Michael Delahoyde, an English professor at Washington State University; and Robin Fox, professor of social theory at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Some more famous names, like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Orson Welles, also lent their posthumous support in a list of people who expressed their own doubts about the Bard when they were alive. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Histories...