Word: twist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bargain is mutual: squash players boost Harvard's team, and the team provides a welcome outlet for kids who were nursed on slow-bouncing, soft, black rubber balls. Harvard's new reputation--and reality--as a meritocratic training ground for new generations of symbolic analysts has added a welcome twist to the squash world. Those students from public high schools, who might have had a decent tennis game but probably never played squash, if they even heard of it, have been introduced through friends and team members to the game...
...sideways twist," another popular choice, requires the napper to twist slightly in the chair, resting one side of the body against the back rest. Although this pose is comfortable, it is dangerously obvious and not to be attempted by novices...
...store neither advertises nor distributes a catalog, but the in-store catalog for April Cornell linen collection provides an entertaining read in the style of the J.Peterman catalog (of Seinfeld fame). The shop puts an interesting twist on catalog writing, turning flowery prose into poetry. An example is this rhyming verse description of a collection--it has the utter incomprehensibility of haiku: "Tinted organdy in lime and Dresden blue, luscious velvets and jacquard--a hint of old, a tint...
Lewinsky Love Story Courtroom intrigue, steamy scenes, a president, a prosecutor ? the Lewinsky scandal has it all. The latest plot twist: Will the Secret Service be forced to testify? Special: Scandal in the Oval Office
...tapes of Monica Lewinsky, though, tell a story that is, shall we say, more complicated. If the tapes are correct--and Bill Clinton, of course, says they are not--the President of the United States is a sexual predator. The story line is boy-meets-girl, with a twist. The boy is 50 years old, married, and the most powerful and famous man in the world; the girl is by many definitions still a girl, a few years older than his daughter: 21, fresh from college, away from home, working for him without pay at her first real...