Word: twistingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: One of the Whitewater scandal's most flamboyant characters has added a new twist to the story by changing his story, again. President Clinton's former friend and business partner Jim McDougal tells federal investigators that Clinton knew about an illegal loan issued to his then-wife Susan. According to the New Yorker magazine, McDougal now backs David Hale's story that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That's a departure from what both McDougal and Clinton testified under oath last year, when McDougal and former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker...
...next twist comes with the identity of the Congressman; Republican leadership sources tell TIME they strongly suspect Jim McDermott, ranking Democrat on the ethics committee. A committee source, interviewed by TIME, claims to have overheard McDermott talking to a Florida couple, who insisted on giving him a package in person. House Republican leaders say they have learned that McDermott discussed the conference call with special counsel James Cole before any news of the call appeared in public. They insisted that the call had not violated any deal and quickly went on the offensive, charging that intentionally intercepting and taping private...
Back too is the lush, year-end holiday party but with a '90s twist: quiet consumption, meaning that the posh hotels and clubs swell with revelers, the Cristal champagne ($190 a bottle) still flows, but gone are the ostentatious soirees of yore. Not unlike a Jil Sander suit: it's sleek, simple and elegant, but it still costs about...
...Faces" knows exactly what it is--a cheesy romantic comedy--and it follows this classic, comforting formula to the letter: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy is an idiot, boy loses girl, boy and girl get back together. Streisand, however, adds her own 90's twist--no sex. This little curveball does exactly nothing to divert the film from the romantic formula, but, aside from discouraging most of the male audience, it does accomplish one other significant feat: It makes the movie a whole hell of a lot funnier...
Citizen Ruth and Sling Blade are directorial debuts with regional roots (Omaha, Nebraska, and Benton, Arkansas). And both feature star turns with a twist: Burt Reynolds as an Operation Rescue-style evangelist, John Ritter as a gay, discount-store manager. But these films have more serious novelties to offer. Citizen Ruth is, lo and behold, a political satire, and Sling Blade has the richness of a fine Southern Gothic novel...