Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed winners from the reform--Indian and colored voters--are now placed in an unpleasant buffer position. Many of their leaders have urged a boycott of the segregated chambers of Parliament, while others are more willing to lay down for their former oppressors. So a new twist is added to apartheid...
...second but the slow parts are played lightly and even alluded to to keep the show moving along. A play with only five characters and five murders has a problem surviving anything but a bloody depressing finale. Levin provides an out; it is played well, adding a twist to make sure the audience leaves laughing and able to speculate on what happens next. That mixture of laughter and uncertainty make Deathtrap audiences easy prey...
...compulsory military conscription, thus widening the political base for white South African rule. When the inevitable arms struggle occurs, the apartheid regime could call on a greater percentage of the population to take up arms. Brown-and white-skinned individuals would fight together against Blacks, adding a new twist to the continuing apartheid theme of divide and rule...
Taken to its logical extreme, this rationale would let police search any home anywhere because police could physically break down any door and most people realize this. In a bitter twist of irony, the majority of the New Jersey Court suggested that random locker searches would be legal if students knew that their lockers could be physically searched. Here, as with the supreme court's condonement of roadblocks searching every car on a given road, we have the new legal doctrine of equal injustice masquerading as equal protection...
...seaside capital of St. George's remained a mystery, perhaps even to the participants. Callers to the Prime Minister's office were told that staff members were sorry, but everybody was too tied up in meetings to come to the telephone. In another bizarre twist, charter flights into Grenada were politely informed that sure, they could land, as long as they were not carrying any Grenadians as passengers. Most islanders were too muddled by the proceedings even to choose sides...