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What Calvino would have done with sight and touch the reader can only conjecture. That he or she will want to do so is just the sort of twist that Calvino, one of the century's greatest imaginers, would have loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Territories UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...that the fans don't show any enthusiasm--it's just never directed at the game. A 20-yd. Flutie to Stanley Morgan completion isn't enough to prod the spectators to stand, but a time-out rendition of "Twist and Shout...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Shhhhhh... | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

SALAAM BOMBAY! An Indian Oliver Twist learns the ways of slum-life survival in Mira Nair's poignant documentary fable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 7, 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...These two approaches--concern with the formal aspect of architecture and design and the social twist of that study--have been seen as very distinct, if not diametrically opposed," Burns says. "I think one can't understand the formal solutions and approach unless one understands the social side too. Studying buildings and formal aspects helps you to understand the social, and one shouldn't look at one without the other...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Reconstructing History | 10/26/1988 | See Source »

...event will introduce a new twist to the campaign, a chance for Dukakis to enter the livingrooms of a huge number of American voters--about 20 percent of whom the polls say are still undecided--something he has not done since the Democratic convention last July. Dukakis's appearance tonight will give him the opportunity to do what he could not during the debates--engage in dialogue with the voter rather than reciting prepared phrases...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Duke's Night in the Sun | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

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