Word: twister
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...stage is the performer's space: it belongs to the actor - or the character - who is always "on." He is the metaphor matador, the tale twister, the verbal bully who mesmerizes those onstage and in the audience with his endless conjury of felicitous syllables. He is the theater's grand gabby old man, the shaman, the incantator, who goes back to Aeschylus and forward to O'Neill and Osborne, Stoppard and Shepard. Put a spotlight on him, and the eloquence swells, the spell continues. He simply will not shut...
Zbigniew Brzezinski. For most Americans the name is still a tongue twister, but it has become well known nonetheless, just as the proud, ambitious and dynamic Polish-born professor hoped it would when Jimmy Carter appointed him White House National Security Adviser nearly four years ago. But with his fame has come more notoriety and criticism than he expected. Aside from the President himself, Brzezinski is the most controversial member of a highly controversial Administration. He is widely blamed for many of the troubles that have beset the U.S. since he came into office...
...never chased a twister as did Gene Moore in your American Scene article [June 18], but as a small child I spent many hours, often at night, in a cellar keeping out of the way of twisters in Vici, Okla. These childhood memories are not among my fondest...
Hilde Graf was watching TV last week in her Wichita Falls, Texas, home when a tornado warning flashed on the screen. She rushed to a window and spotted a huge cloud darkening the horizon. With the twister bearing down at about 70 m.p.h., she jumped into her car and raced to the Sikes shopping mall, which she thought had a basement storm shelter. But there was no shelter at the mall, and Graf, along with hundreds of shoppers, cowered on the concrete floors of the mall's stores as the storm struck and merchandise and broken glass hurtled like...
...twister was part of the worst tornado system to hit Texas since 1953, when 114 people were killed in Waco. One evening last week, perhaps as many as ten funnels roared down the Red River Valley, along the border of Texas and Oklahoma. The corridor is known as Tornado Alley because its springtime atmospheric conditions-warm air from the Gulf collides with cold fronts from the north-make it ripe for spawning twisters...