Word: twist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Halliwell, the playwright, gives the character a new twist. He shows in some tremendously comic episodes that his hero is a power-hungry Hitler because he's afraid he really has no power at all. Malcolm has a hard time just getting out of bed in the morning. And he has an even harder time screwing up his courage enough to accept advances from the girl he likes. Kenny McBain's production (he directed the show and played the title role) implied that hesitancy with Ann Gedge and ensuing self hatred were what spurred Malcolm on to power politics...
Tuesday, December 12 MR. DICKENS OF LONDON (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Sir Michael Redgrave as Charles Dickens conducts British Actress Juliet Mills on a tour of the city that he and his characters-Oliver Twist, Bill Sykes and Nancy, David Copperfield, Tiny Tim and Scrooge-knew in the 1800s...
...members of the Banal Generation (dean's-list students, over 20, and not even flower children) do hereby affirm our faith in the warmth and empathy of the poetry of Rod McKuen [Nov. 24] and do unanimously declare that your review is Truman Capote with a twist of formaldehyde. SANDRA BARKER CATHY TRACY MARGOT GRONHOLZ Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio...
FREDERICK by Leo Lionni (Pantheon; $3.50). A twist on the standard story of wise little animals storing away food for the winter ahead. Frederick, a field mouse, sits through the summer, collecting sun rays, colors and words while his friends gather grain. In the middle of winter, when his friends' food is exhausted, Frederick's warm colors and bright words make them forget their hunger. "Frederick," they acknowledge, "you are a poet...
Fair enough, or so it seems. And because it does, it is the big, new, easy-money scheme of the year, according to the Post Office Department. In essence, it merely gives a modern twist to the age-old missing-heir dodge. The twist is important. In the past, a con man would approach a few selected victims with a well-prepared line of talk and ask for a few hundred dollars to cover his expenses. The large sum requested required a risky in-person performance. A promoter of the new scheme can use a photocopy machine and the mails...