Word: twist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McKuen sang Oliver Twist...
...Oliver Twist...
...could be read into one of Hitler's Nürnberg decrees that held "there is a greater difference between the lowest forms still called human and our superior races than between the lowest man and monkeys of the highest order." Yet Adler gives the subject a new twist by asserting that man's nature is defined not only by his difference from the beasts but by his difference from machines...
...Minh; and Ho-unlike the Viet Cong-apparently will talk to nobody. But in war, negotiations sometimes come when least expected, just after one side or the other swears that it will never countenance them. When that time comes in Viet Nam, its resilient Communists will characteristically try to twist Clausewitz and turn diplomacy into war by other means...
...first full-length motion picture, Yale film kingpin Robert Edlestein takes firm hold on a familiar visual metaphor, and by applying a vigorous half-twist makes it fresh, contemporary, and personal. The paired figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, representing the constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein...