Word: twistingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfectly appropriate twist last week, defense attorneys for the Kimeses introduced Les Levine, a private investigator who has worked for both infamous sportscaster Marv Albert and one of the New York City cops accused in the toilet-plunger sodomy scandal. Levine said his mission is to find out what really happened to Irene Silverman, 82, the missing ex-dancer. "Oftentimes," he said of police, "they get so blinded by what they think are the facts that the true perpetrator happens to get away...
...group made its breakthrough. In April its label, Flip/Interscope, signed an unprecedented contract with radio station kufo of Portland, Ore., agreeing to pay $5,000 in exchange for 50 plays of Bizkit's single Counterfeit. "Pay-for-play," as this kind of arrangement is called, is a controversial new twist on the old, discredited practice known as payola: instead of letting songs rise or falter on their merits in the tough record marketplace, some labels are improving the odds by paying radio stations cash to play or mention their product...
...flesh. Although Perry has clearly read her Toni Morrison, her insights into slavery are no more piercing than, say, Steven Spielberg's in Amistad. But to be fair, this debut novel is not really about remembering that peculiar institution; it's about healing relationships between mothers and daughters. The twist: Lizzie is both daughter and mother...
...glimpse of her. "Come back as President, Hillary!" a man shouted in Pittsfield, Mass. When she made an unscheduled stop for a chocolate-and-vanilla ice cream cone at a roadside stand in tiny Weedsport, N.Y., the owner put up a sign urging passersby to TRY THE HILLARY TWIST...
Thus, upon my descent from the land of Student Advantage to the land of student disadvantage, I expected to be confronted by a barrage of real people. And I was, but with an unexpected twist. To my surprise, I found that the vast majority of real people I met who had graduated from college recently--that is, within the past two, three or even four or five years--are living in a state of denial. They are technically real people, but you'd never know...