Word: twist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning was an obscure soft-core paperback original to which no one paid special heed. Then came the Patty Hearst kidnaping, and someone noticed that cheap fiction seemed to predict this sensational crime in detail, even including the plot twist that had the victim eventually embrace the captors' ideology. Parallels continue to turn up: recent reports indicate that Hearst surrendered to revolutionary sexuality even before succumbing to revolutionary politics-just as Abduction s heroine...
...recession. Everyone in New York, from Chase Manhattan to rookie sanitation men must be prepared to make some sacrifices. But these sacrifices will have to be imposed from outside, as the necessary price for saving the city and the nation from the unquestionably deleterious effects of letting New York twist slowly, slowly in the wind...
Michael E. Mandelbaum, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday he believes the two incidents were unrelated. "Rockefeller got tired of being the target of right wing abuse and decided to spare himself the humiliation of being left to twist in the wind by Ford...
...drinking and dancing are the Maona (Tahitian), Para-dize (Brazilian) and New Jimmyz (art deco). The woman who manages all this, sometime Singer Regine (nee Zylberberg), 45, now plans new discothèques in Rio and Manhattan. "Life begins with the first cocktail," says the lady who introduced le twist to Paris. "She only sleeps three hours a night," adds her husband and former secretary, Roger Choukroun. The cabaret queen is also branching out into fashion design. Her first collection, introduced at a Paris ready-to-wear show last week, features-what else?-evening wear specially designed for dancing. With...
...ENGROSSED in covering a real news story that he made in a hip documentary about the event as though its factual basis were its most exciting aspect. He's got the Super-Journalist conceits that produce disorganized, melodramatic, drawn-out cinema. He doggedly records every harangue, phone call and twist of the action, including the dead spaces in between. Like a faithful reporter he never leaves the scene of the crime; since most of the film is shot in the bank's cramped interior, the visual monotony is relieved only by occasional shots of the street and a few crosscuts...