Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call me a puppethead after reading the how to peak hip glossary at the end, but this new twist on the be a better and healthier person or else you'll die genre does little for the quest of rooting out the uncool in the world, one of its stated goals. In a mock parody like The Preppy Handbook, one might try to tolerate the section on. "The Dark History of Sunglasses" and the consumer help portions of the book, which offers readers where-to-buy leads, addresses and advice...
...buyout by another company, guarantees Agee an $805,000 annual salary for five years even if he is fired. That lucrative arrangement was presumably authorized by the board's compensation committee and approved by the directors, as is typical in such cases. But at Bendix there was a twist. Equitable Life Chairman Coy Eklund, a Bendix director and member of its compensation committee, is partly beholden to Agee for his own $594,794 in 1981 salary and bonuses. Reason: Agee is an Equitable director and sits on its compensation committee...
...this time-worn situation Stoppard adds a hilarious and original twist: the cast includes a pair of critics, who watch the action with the rest of the audience. Their pre-curtain conversation begins the play and, as the evening progresses, they gradually get involved in the drama on stage, more so than reviewers generally...
...juxtapositions make a viewer catch his breath. After Nina Bernstein's lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well, I didn't want to be just a housewife--comes like a slap in the face. Each speech and song brings a new twist--a corporate executive is numbered among the hunted unhappy, a cocktail waitress keeps herself euphoric through a curiously empty pride...
...between Timely Writer and the Triple Crown' stood the unhappy timing of a bizarre intestinal twist which left the colt recuperating from emergency surgery while the spring's Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes passed him by. The experts gave the horse only even odds to survive the operation, but by August he had put in a victorious appearance at Saratoga. This served notice that the son of Staff Writer had regained his earlier form, and going into the Jerome Handicap in early September he looked like the Boston horse...