Word: twist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ended and another began. I reassure myself by consulting the papers. On Sunday I am the only one in the apartment house. A week earlier it had taken a direct hit, and although I was away, I felt vulnerable as never before. At 4 a.m. the shelling begins. I twist and turn in bed, wondering whether or not to get up. I am really only afraid of shells from the sea, but they are shooting from the sea. I decide to get dressed and go downstairs. Abu Ali, the Palestinian concierge, is already...
Moviegoers expect to be subjected to B-grade light shows, requests for charitable contributions or even car ads while waiting for the feature to begin. But in the Los Angeles area these past few months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife...
...plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers. Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about. Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion." The twist in Ionesco's "thriller" is the conclusion that every man is his own criminal...
...chosen form: the comedy-drama. Allowing the film to teeter between pathos and slapstick, he treats the material too lightly to evoke a poignant response from the audience, yet not satirically enough to inspire much laughter. Moreover, the overly cheerful conclusion results from a painfully contrived plot twist...
Megabuck mergers have become almost commonplace on Wall Street in the last couple of years, but last week there was one so huge and unexpected that even the most jaded brokers blinked in surprise. In a startling new twist to an ongoing takeover battle between Mesa Petroleum Co. and Cities Service Co., the Gulf Oil Corp. entered the fray. Gulf, the ninth largest U.S. industrial corporation (1981 sales: $28 billion), announced that it had worked out a friendly takeover deal with Cities Service (1981 revenues: $8.5 billion). Gulf agreed to pay $5.04 billion for 100% of Cities Service...