Word: tortuousness
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...populace stones a few soldiers, for instance--are unexplained rituals, bad theater without meaning or any attempt at meaning.) An oil well catches fire and to extinguish the flames the oil company needs vast quantities of explosives. The nearest explosives are separated from the well by 218 miles of tortuous jungle road; expert truck drivers, who will probably lose their lives, must bring them...
...might just as well sit in the second row, for the standard collegiate hash will reach every corner of the theater, arousing smiles on an audience full of old-and new-timers with a weakness for the snaphappy sound. The Kroks rendition of "Blue Moon", along with its tortuous and ticklish bass line, was worth the price of admission, so if they program it this year, they'd do well to keep the concert short, and release you in time to see Casablanca, which should be leaving the Brattle very soon...
...Monologues. Van Nostrand believes that good writing is all in the approach. Students turn out tortuous prose when they treat writing as a monologue. In functional writing, they are taught to view it as a dialogue with readers. Says Van Nostrand: "It is easier to organize your information for someone else than for yourself." In a typical course, 15 to 30 students meet with an instructor twice a week for 90-minute sessions. The core of the program is a 331-page workbook outlining a series of laborious drills that break the writing process into simple steps...
...been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this." In the fashionable Los Angeles community of Cheviot Hills, every mail brings bulging sacks of letters to Alex Haley?all of it evidence of the astonishing impact produced by his saga of a black family's tortuous trail to freedom. Haley thinks he knows why Roots touched all America. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, he explained his own theory of the Roots phenomenon and told how he came to write the book...
...repossess a film they already owned-which May had somehow sold off to another company, Alyce Films (an outfit backed by Peter Falk, among others). May responded in fine style by suing Paramount for breach of their contract. While the fur flew, May was bogged down by the tortuous process of editing nearly 1.5 million ft. of film. The movie is fractured, disorienting, out of control. There are fleeting moments of quirky insight, even of bril- liance, but they serve to make the whole even more disconcerting...