Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swan is a quiet movie abut love, set in a country palace of Hungary in the early part of the century. It has three attractions: Grace Kelly, Alec Gunniess, and a new twist on the old triangular plot...
With his new suggestions for NATO strategy last week, Secretary of State Dulles showed that the Administration feels compelled to alter its foreign policy in the face of caustic foreign and domestic criticism. The new twist, although laudable passes only as a beginning and cannot be interpreted as a major revision of policy. The altered attitude should be extended, enlarged, and made a permanent part of United States foreign outlook...
Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley; Victor). A new singer with a new twist: a double voice that alternates between a high, unpleasant quaver, reminiscent of Johnnie Ray at his fiercest, and a rich basso that might be smooth if it were not for its spasmodic delivery. Heartbreak Hotel, yelps the high voice, is where he's going to get away from it all. Answers the basso: he'll be sorry...
...Twist of Fate. In Newark, Leroy Bonner, 24, confessed that he had robbed a local gas station and diner, told the cops that he had turned to crime because he just couldn't make a living baking, bending and selling pretzels...
Usually, however, M.I.T. pranks have a more scientific twist. A few years ago when Massachusetts Ave. was being re-paved, one of the workmen left his steam-roller parked overnight along the curb. As a precaution, he dismantled certain key parts of the motor and piled them up on the seat. But he underestimated the M.I.T. man's ingenuity. The steamroller was soon restored to running condition and was found next morning at Harvard in President Conant's front yard...