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...best of these acts, the Tchelnokov family, performs a breathtaking set of contortions. Anton Tchelnokov, age eight, seems to have inherited all of the bizarre flexibility and uncanny strength of his parents; his skinny little frame is apparently composed of some fiber that allows him to slither snakelike and twist himself into pretzelian shapes. At one point, his father holds this spindly little tyke--by the feet--parallel to the ground, ribs sticking out and grin plastered to his face, for several frightening seconds. Although their act verges on the grotesque, this family delivers the most graceful and seamlessly choreographed...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Paragraph 15: Here we encounter Kim's ironic twist on the theme of education. The senior reappears to remind us that in the end, the only truths are those which will be covered on the final exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffs Notes | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...phone call to the Harvard Management Company (HMC) last week turned up an interesting twist on cultural awareness: the company's non-Jewish leaders weren't there, and according to one secretary, they were celebrating Rosh Hashanah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Curse of Dorian Gray '97 | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...ironic twist, it was the threat of Hamas that in some measure persuaded both the P.L.O. and the Israeli government to come down to brass tacks in Norway--the P.L.O. because it had everything to lose under an ascendant Hamas and Israel because Hamas made even the P.L.O. look moderate. Hamas remains a threat, however--both in its influence among Palestinians and in its volatile nature. It has nothing to lose by trying to violently disrupt the peace process and everything to gain. Viewed in this light, Jericho was a brilliant choice for a P.L.O. capital--it is practically...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: After Godot's Arrival: Moving Beyond Talk | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...until this year, I could take solace in the fact that I was still part of America's youngest generation. I could understand every new twist and turn of popular culture. I was a member of the generation that was the hippest, the baddest, the most in touch...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Beavis Generation | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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