Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players have it all over the baseballs. The major leaguers stretch and twist and run under a warm sun, but the baseball's lot is to enter the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co.'s "torture chamber...
...more important element of the package, in the long run, is a proposal that would help the White House twist arms more effectively when dealing with foreign competition. The Administration suggests that the entire trading relationship between the U.S. and any alleged offending country be a factor in considering retaliation for any unfair trading practices. That would allow the Administration formally to take into account any U.S. trade deficit or surplus with each country, as well as the openness of both national marketplaces to similar export products. Theoretically, Washington could then impose tariffs or trade quotas on those that have...
...desegregate all public schools and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Black mayors now govern Washington, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia, and there are now more than 6,400 black officeholders where there were only a handful a generation ago. Paradoxically, these limited but real successes bring a new twist to racism. "We have more hatred now," says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "because we've entered a new era, an , era of competition for jobs, attention, power. Now we are the people who may get your job, who may be living next to you, who may ask your...
...twist in The Counterlife is more confusing and shocking than the old "Alice has been dreaming" ploy, because Roth plays with the reader's fundamental desire to accept the world on the pages of the book. It somehow leaves the reader with an empty feeling to discover that Roth has published a novel written by one of his fictional characters. Yet this duality provides an insight into Roth's own mind...
...find new trouble spots in the political landscape; the soapbox spieler will continue his spellbinding harangues. His mind and moral sense are too restless to relax in the glow of celebrity and the promise of statuettes. But for the moment, Oliver Stone has found for himself the one plot twist he would never have put in Platoon: a happy ending to his Viet Nam nightmare...