Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SALAAM BOMBAY! An Indian Oliver Twist learns the ways of slum-life survival in Mira Nair's poignant documentary fable...
...These two approaches--concern with the formal aspect of architecture and design and the social twist of that study--have been seen as very distinct, if not diametrically opposed," Burns says. "I think one can't understand the formal solutions and approach unless one understands the social side too. Studying buildings and formal aspects helps you to understand the social, and one shouldn't look at one without the other...
...event will introduce a new twist to the campaign, a chance for Dukakis to enter the livingrooms of a huge number of American voters--about 20 percent of whom the polls say are still undecided--something he has not done since the Democratic convention last July. Dukakis's appearance tonight will give him the opportunity to do what he could not during the debates--engage in dialogue with the voter rather than reciting prepared phrases...
TAKE the First Street Cafe as an example. It's a new restaurant with a Southwestern twist. Its windows offer a scenic view of the Charles River. It's also right next door to the Lechmere department store. But the restaurant's owners fail to see the contradiction...
What is ominous is that Reebok ads are remarkably successful at achieving what all advertising attempts to do, namely associating a product with an identity. It's the old ploy--eat Wheaties and you'll be as bouncy and healthy as Mary Lou Retton--but it has an added twist. The U.B.U. ad campaigns refers not just to appearance or to health or to product quality. It refers to how we see ourselves as Americans. And by using sneaker. The campaign emphasized the crucially American dialectic of individual versus community. We can all wear the same sneakers, the ads tell...