Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become the most recognizable people in the world, and among the wealthiest. The fairy tale needs one more twist: both Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford were immigrants...
...like a nightmarish rerun of the Iranian hostage drama, with a surreal twist. Once again American hostages were paraded before the cameras by their terrorist captors. Only this time they were not blindfolded, as the American embassy officials had been in Tehran, or made to grovel by bug-eyed radicals shouting "Death to America!" Rather, the prisoners, some unshaven, all uneasy, but combed and neat, were graciously ushered out to meet the press...
...latest curious twist in the search for Mengele began two weeks ago, when West German authorities descended upon the idyllic town of Gunzburg, whose biggest employer is the firm of Karl Mengele & Sons, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. There, acting on a tip from an unidentified university professor, for reasons still not clear, they raided a house that is believed to belong to Hans Sedlmeier, a onetime legal clerk for the Mengele firm. Sedlmeier was widely reported to have been a messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home...
...there was a twist. Rather than inveighing against traditionalism, as radicals are supposed to do, Glass was in revolt against radicalism itself: the overintellectualized and emotionally arid music that had dominated contemporary composition for decades. By writing in a deceptively simple, joyously propulsive new style that came to be called minimalism, he hoped to restore the historic bond between composer and listener. Unlikely as it seemed, while bouncing along the potholed streets of Manhattan or dodging the drunks in his chosen neighborhood of New York City's Lower East Side, Glass was confidently engaged in the most stimulating musical revolution...
...other economists stressed that Reagan must make a vigorous push for the entire reform package if it is to stand any chance of becoming law. Said Rivlin: "The President will have to do for tax reform what he did for the MX -- make a lot of phone calls and twist a lot of arms." Even then, the board agreed, the bill's prospects will hardly be assured. Said | Greenspan: "Anyone who thinks this is going to run through Congress like a hot knife through butter has not observed the political process in this country...