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James weaves all these themes into a knuckle-whitening story which keeps the reader avidly turning the pages, right up to the fabulously ambiguous conclusion. Her capacity to astonish with an utterly unexpected twist shines forth on several occasions she characterizes Faron with detail and insight: he occupies a different league from her standard murder mystery suspects. Her projection of the future manages to be both darkly visionary and depressingly realistic...
...sexual revelation is a dramatic stunt: Agatha Christie rewritten by Quentin Crisp. But the twist is also brilliant because it makes the relationship riper, the characters deeper. Flying in the face of every convention, the love story soars. Jordan calls his movie "a love story without sex, beyond sex. You think that love is the same thing as sex -- and it's not, is it?" Because they never do have sex, the lovers can hold on to their ideal images of each other as savior and beautiful woman. "It's my little joke about a marriage," Jordan says. "The ideal...
...said. "I want the government to show me how many of these goals have been met." But by that time, if it's proof he's looking for, Johnson probably won't need a government report. He can take a time-honored political test and ask, with a Clintonesque twist, "Are we better off than we were four years...
...believe the Constitution exists," the rapper said. "You can bend it and twist it any way you want. This is a tool you attorneys will...
Fraiberg made it the semifinals before losing to Demer Holleran in three straight games. Earlier, in an unlikely twist of fate, Fraiberg faced and eliminated Eynon in the second round. Doyle said it was surprising and somewhat disappointing that the Crimson teammates had to meet so early in the tournament. Desai, the final Harvard competitor in the tourney, also lost to Crimson-wrecker Holleran, 3-0. As the men and women's teams approach critical matches against Yale and the national championships within the next two weeks, the individual tourney served as a successful tune-up for more important things...