Word: twist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...
These things only get beyond their usualness by being caught so precisely and spontaneously to begin with. There is a clear effort to avoid the freak image, wailing for attention. Because the camera asserts its simple means, the slight twist of a wide angle lens, for instance, is able to take hold of its subject with all the more force, and draw together spaces separated by a wall or pillar into a new single sense...
...piece. To demonstrate this lack of expertise he filed exhibits A through Z--reviews from earlier that year--on a Harvard Dramatic Club bulletin board. A jury of his peers and colleagues swiftly returned a verdict of guilty, and the paper was condemned for yet another year to twist slowly, slowly on the spit of resentment; fuel for fires in the rooms of theater people at Harvard long before the energy crisis was more than a twinkle in Exxon...
...Cooper has found that stimulating the cerebellum electrically apparently increases its inhibitory action on the cerebrum. Cooper has implanted electronic "pacemakers" upon the cerebellums of several epileptics, as well as patients suffering from stroke-caused paralysis, cerebral palsy and from dystonia, a neuromuscular defect in which permanently flexed muscles twist and distort the limbs. The device, which stimulates the cerebellum with low-voltage jolts, has produced relief in most of the 70 cases in which it has been used. One muscular 26-year-old man suffered from daily epileptic seizures before he came to Cooper for a pacemaker. Since...
...back again, courtesy of the late Ian Fleming's official biographer, John Pearson-but with a twist...