Word: twins
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They're like twin antediluvian monstrosities: too ugly, too wonky, too scaly and strange to flourish in today's cold political climate when the blinding comet of television has wiped out their kind, leaving only furry grinning mammals behind. Richard Nixon barely knew Henry Kissinger when he appointed him, notes Robert Dallek in Nixon and Kissinger, but they turned out to be two of a kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's both hypnotic and terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin...
They're like twin antediluvian monstrosities: too ugly, too wonky, too scaly and strange to flourish in today's cold political climate when the blinding comet of television has wiped out their kind, leaving only furry grinning mammals behind. Richard Nixon barely knew Henry Kissinger when he appointed him, notes Robert Dallek in Nixon and Kissinger, but they turned out to be two of a kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's hypnotic and--retroactively--terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin...
...weekday afternoon, school buses roll into the front lot of Fresh Pond Apartments, a low-income housing complex in North Cambridge that looks like a freshman’s worst nightmare the evening before Housing Day—an enormous Mather House multiplied by two, twin brick towers facing each other which rise more than 20 stories high...
...used to the stares and nudges. I've even developed a couple of airy responses to the inevitable comments that arise from co-workers and friends along the lines of "Um, your husband is so hot..." Sometimes I go with "Oh, that's not my husband--that's my twin brother," and other times a dismissive "Yeah, but back in Australia I'm considered a great beauty. It's Nicole Kidman who's the hag." Each time, it hurts just a little less...
...PLAY THE HERO'S EVIL TWIN...