Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow, that statement seems to summarize the warped twist of fate that has met the Phils in the playoffs the past two autumns. A slightly less sympathetic way of saying it is that they've choked the last two years...
...intricate, at times overly-serious structure of the Dos Passos/Paul Shyre adaption, Manulis adds his own twist: in his production, the audience does not view the play U.S.A. perse; rather it views a dress rehearsal of the Dos Passos play--the old play within a play idea. A device of this kind is a potentially good idea for this material; it could mitigate two of the play's most irritating problems--the occasionally moralistic tone of the playwright, and the differing degrees to which the players act "in period." Yet Manulis fails to develop the dress rehearsal framework coherently...
Christie, probably the most famous and certainly the most prolific of detective novelists, is the master of complex plots, ambiguous clues, and cardboard characters. Her stories are infamous for the trick endings--the sharp twist of plot indicting someone ostensibly cleared of suspicion or never suspected...
...real disappointment for Harvard in the meet came when Jamie Greacen's foot slipped on his full twist two-and-a-half and he failed the dive. Greacen, who was diving well up to that point, thus received points for only ten dives while all other divers scored on the usual 11 dives. "It was just a freak thing," said a somewhat disappointed Walker, "but it happens to even the best divers." Nevertheless, Greacen will also make the trek to Long Beach by virtue of his fourth-place effort on the low board...
...prank we played on Henry Kissinger is given an odd and nasty twist for no apparent reason. Ordinary, glossy movie promotion pictures of Jill St. John, one of Henry's beautiful dates, were put into file folders, then given captions by several of the staff as we rode together on Air Force One. and periodically sent to Henry by messenger. Miss St. John was, in fact, fully clothed in all the photos. Haldeman has written that the pictures were nudes and that I forged "presidential memos to Henry complete with Nixon's 'bizarre demands' for certain types of action." That...