Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempts to deny that preoccupation through a studied lack of affect) as a means of dulling the romantic impulse. Deerfield is a star racing driver whose success is based on a superrationality that requires a cutting off of all emotion. But then a car that is the twin of Deerfield's spins out of control, its driver is horribly hurt in the crash, and reason dictates that Bobby discover what happened in order to avoid a similar fate...
Castro was forced to recognize his sill; Che became the twin commander of the revolutionary army. Later he would become Minister for Economics and a commandant, the Cuban army's highest rank. He was not suited for the former; the vagaries of international finance are not readily grasped by a young man, particularly an angry young man. The Cuban revolution now finished, Che abandoned the work of a government official, and prepared for the Bolivian expedition, with Fidel's help...
...genre has twin traditions: Great Bad Writing and Great Good Writing. In the Manichaean world of Great Bad Books, evil is always more compelling than heroism. Such works as John Buchan's The 39 Steps construct elaborate international conspiracies; Sax Rohmer's exemplary Fu Manchu series features a supervillain "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." From there it is only a bullet's journey to Ian Fleming's Doctor...
...final analysis, the U.S. must be willing to disarm both by itself, and in cooperation with the Soviet Union. It is to these twin tasks that Americans should now turn their full attention...
...rock stars--the image is a purely masculine one, as witnessed by the criticism levelled at Janis Joplin's femininity. What remains for women, and especially for women of Ronstadt's beauty and talent is a large but seemingly limited repertoire of blues-oriented music, running along the twin themes of loneliness and/or broken romances. Perhaps that is all that sells, and in the record business, as in any other major industry, sales...