The photo says it all: A very slender, ailing man sits on the floor with his head bent, completely alone in the dark in what used to be an Ebola treatment center in West Africa.
Teddy faced so much alone and bent contemporary rules of womanhood and wifehood along the way.
The ties that bind Washington, Wall Street and corporate elites will not break, let alone bend, unless faced with a severe popular uprising.
"No one even understands how they avoid the bends, let alone how they then go on to get the bends in certain situations," Fahlman says.
I love belonging to you — I glory in it, that you alone... have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, made me yours, yours".
On the final bend, all alone, just as at the very start, I pulled in to Land's End, fighting the wind.
And if you're bad and bent, the John Waters Christmas CD stands alone.
Look out!" And one by one they fell, backward or forward, and he alone was cutting through the air, bent double over his skis, until he saw her.
There, alone in the low amber light, he bent over the balustrade to gaze at the crowd standing to applaud.
I surveyed the past six months of Pew and Gallup polls, to better understand the portrait of a generation bent on rapid change — even if that means standing alone.
