Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright young man. He writes articles about the nuclear debate here and in Europe as if he were Anthony Lewis '48, and he effectively discounts any responses to his pieces by labelling all his opponents dupes of the Reagan Administration spewing forth propaganda like mindless morons (a nice twist on the traditional right-wing method of calling opponents Communist dupes). This is a tried and true method for advancing one's opinion--discredit the opposition and no one but you is left for the reader to believe--and it speaks well for Mr. Louis's cunning. I wish the same...
...other side and take a flying leap over the same fence. A police car turns down the stret right in front of me. I put one hand on the trunk and twist around it, taking off down North Avenue, right next to the park, again...
Instead, mealtime conversations at Harvard have taken an upappetizing new twist. It's not abnormal to say. "I hate baseball. Not only is it stupid and boring, but the players are getting paid too much to play a kid's game. Baseball has lost its virginity. It has been infiltrated and corrupted by money." Then the discussion takes the predictable pseudo-intellectual turn when the baseball haters attempt to defend soccer or lacrosse as better sports. In my opinion, that's just plain silly...
...announces that the discovery of the unconscious, the possibility of universal socialism and man's ability to live in outer space are the century's "three greatest events." The End of the World News (the BBC news readers' sign-off phrase) amplifies those themes with a twist, and it is a twist of the dial. Reading, says the author, must reflect the new way of viewing television in the "three-screen family." Therefore his postliterary trilogy is broken into prime-time vignettes...
This clearly benefited Washington, who reaped 80 percent of the Black vote, while Byrne and Daley split the white vote. Washington's tactics were strictly of the old-fashioned machine type. The twist in this story is that the machine failed to practice its own teachings. Byrne, who won in 1979 with heavy Black support, alienated this major constituency during her term. One key incident which Black leaders single out as an example of her lack of concern was her decision to select white appointees to a board overseeing predominantly Black housing projects...