Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friel's Lovers gives a warm (and loving) glance at two 17-year-old fiances. Sitting on a hill overlooking their town, Mag (Sarah Jane Cohen) and Joe (Aaron Carlos) try to study for final exams but mainly dream of their future together. Before long, Friel introduces a tragic twist: the couple will die in a boating accident before the afternoon is over...
...point. There can be no elimination of nuclear weapons without the creation of a functional nuclear defense. Reagan must not allow one day to pass when the U.S. has neither nuclear arms nor a shield against nuclear arms. To allow a window of vulnerability on this count would, to twist Gorbachev's characterization, be madness...
...three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape all the men . . . and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!" And, most discouraging of all, the Unconscionable Length: 1,138 pages...
They slog through the outback for a few days, where she learns how to hypnotize animals, twist the heads off snakes and avoid those terrifying crocodiles lurking in every innocent-looking lake. The film is dotted with humorous scenes, including a laugh-out-loud encounter with a modern aborigine...
...pondered this new twist to the message of Kemp, I must have had a sour look on my face, because Bob felt the need to alleviate my fears...