Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversation drags. Some of his colleagues are concerned that he may even be a bit too polite and deferential. Says one Dallas businessman: "He's the last one out of the elevator and the last one walking down the hall. But I'm not sure he can twist arms or kick butts like he'll have to in order to run a good business." Be that as it may, it is surprising for a Hunt to be suspected of being too nice...
...about him and the Nixon administration. When Mee meets him, Haldeman is suddenly no longer a man to be despised, a man to rage against; Haldeman is now grotesque, a man whose activity has become locked around one period in his life, when he was on hand to help twist American history. When Mee finally meets the enemy, the duplicitous villain he had expected turns out instead to be an object of pity. Watergate is an obsession for Haldeman, but Mee does not need to linger over those unpleasant details. His anti-Nixon tirade and his meeting with Haldeman have...
...incident was a new twist in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S.: computer crime. It has grown from nothing 20 years ago to a $300 million annual racket today. With financial transfers increasingly taken over by electronic data-processing (E.D.P.) systems, the prospects for future swindles appear limitless. Says Philadelphia FBI Agent Michael Boyle: "This is the crime of the future...
...seemed assured that the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would grant the delay. But last week, after newspapers covered Lance with the appearance of new improprieties, the committee stalled and invited him to testify this week. That forced Lance, as Tennessee Democrat James Sasser put it, "to twist in the wind for a few more days...
OCCASIONALLY, however, the scholarly approach backfires. When David, pondering an affair with his stepmother, mentions Phaedre, Auchincloss is unsubtly and rather stupidly warning the reader that the plot's next twist is unoriginal; footnotes are admirable in a scholarly essay but they don't blend well into the dialogue of a novel. And if the references to Hedda Gabler are supposed to fill vacuums in Elesine's character with delicate but complex psychological motives, Auchincloss is either flattering himself or insulting the reader. As Auchincloss he is really quite admirable. As Ibsen or as Racine, he is, however, disappointing...