Word: twistingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds like a plot twist in one of Hiaasen's novels, tales of besmirched pols and gritty heroes in South Florida--"except this is the sort of behavior that if you put it in a novel, critics would say it's unbelievable," Hiaasen says. Second-time-around Mayor Suarez has been back in the job only since November, when he narrowly--and perhaps unfairly--beat the incumbent. (After the election, law enforcers arrested a Suarez campaign volunteer for offering to buy absentee ballots. The Herald and state officials have been examining other irregularities, which could lead to a rematch...
...them. But as last week's proceedings in the trial of the alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone is sane enough to stand trial, does that mean he's sane...
...watchable, taken by itself. There are some nice scenic shots of missiles and jet fighters cruising over mountain ranges. There are many appreciably nifty action sequences involving vehicles of all sorts. There is also the usual bevy of beautiful Bond women, this time including Teri Hatcher, and a new twist to the series in the person of Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese dish who joins forces with 007 and is as skilled and equipped for secret agency as Bond...
...story itself is more prurient than newsworthy, but the issues it elicits transcend the particular details of the Lee household. This newest twist on sex, lies and videotapes highlights the questionable role of the Internet as a purveyor of information...
JAMIE TARSES ABC let this exec twist in the wind, but she got revenge--those stupid yellow ads were hers...