Word: twist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a time when the automobile responded without question or objection to the turn of a key, the gentle pressure of a foot, a twist of the steering wheel and the occasional injection of vital fluids. Those freewheeling days, alas, have passed. As a result of the nation's commendable concern with driver safety, cars are no longer the mute mistresses of yore but have become instead the harridans of the highways, yowling at passengers and refusing orders until they are properly buckled...
...last woodcut. In it, for the first time, he acknowledges the end as well as the continuum of life. For "Birds and the Sea" includes something none of his other landscapes have--the boundary of a horizon line. It is a simple line--ruler straight, no special tone or twist to it. Anyone could draw a line like that. But Milton Avery never did before, and he startles and shocks us with its finality. It is a tribute to Avery's exquisite skill that the most basic element in art can, in his hand, express the experience of both life...
...demanding job. The songs range from quiet lullabies to rowdy music hall ballads, and they demand everything from controlled introspection to furious bitterness from the singers. The songs follow a pattern, each one starting off with an expression of hope or contentment, and ending with a bitter ironic twist or defiant indictment of life...
Amber and green colored glass, as well as clear glass, will be accepted for recycling. It is not necessary, Garlow said, for the labels or the metal rings from twist top bottles to be removed...
...photographs show no mountains similar to the moon's, but there are indications of several great escarpments or cliffs, some of them hundreds of miles long. More puzzling still, there are distinctly nonlunar bumps, hillocks and rills. Some of the rills are remarkably straight, while others twist and turn, almost as if they had been carved out by flowing water. One photograph reveals two overlapping craters with a flow of material-possibly lava-on top of them. That would suggest a period of lava flows that may have followed a major bombardment from space...