Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests of keeping "religious friction at a minimum," the Quebec Board of Censors barred the movie Martin Luther from public exhibition in that province. "We barred the English film Oliver Twist," explained Board Chairman Alexis Gagnon, "because Jewish groups protested that the portrayal of Fagin the Jew might lead people to think of all Jews as being malicious . . . Some Catholics might not get excited about [Martin Luther]. But there are those who might...
Shostakovich: Concerto in C Minor (Victor Aller, piano; Mannie Klein, trumpet; Concert Arts String Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). A barrel of fun, vintage 1933. It turns pretentious phrases into taradiddles, uncovers one ear-tickling twist after another, and includes a slow movement that is unfailingly melodious. Standout performance...
...beautiful; he looks like a Brobdingnagian dentist's drill. But he is a remarkable mechanical man. Obeying electric signals from a distant control console, he can lift 3,000 pounds off the floor and carry 1,000 pounds with a single arm extended horizontally. He can twist thick steel bars into pretzel shapes or tie them in knots. He can use power tools such as drills, hammers or wrenches and can assemble or disassemble all kinds of machinery...
Jungle Bells (Les Paul & Mary Ford; Capitol). A twist on Jingle Bells, featuring a nursery-rhyme lyric, a Latin beat and some remarkably jungly shrieks and bellows made by Les Paul's guitar...
This idea, put forward in the '30s by the New Deal's Brain-Truster David Cushman Coyle, has won support from conservative authorities such as the businessmen's Committee for Economic Development. Recently, Economist Beardsley Ruml, a Fair Dealer, added a new twist. The administrative budget, he argues, is made meaningless by one glaring fault: it overstates the Government's actual operating expenses by including each year an estimated $6 billion worth of items that are actually capital investments of lasting value which should be charged off over a period of years instead of being paid...