Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establish residence, then insert 200 silver dollars. As the divorce popped out of a slot, colored lights would flash, wheels spin and a jukebox would play America. ¶ Hoping to sell more pretzels during Lent, Alex V. Tisdale, president of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute, explained that the twist was originally supposed to represent arms folded in prayer...
...became one of Communism's most devoted apologists; like the rest of her kind, she was always ready to twist or submerge the facts in the interest of "the larger truth." Said one of her friends: "She thought the blundering revolution needed her mothering and understanding...
Imported antiSemitism! cried Berlin's U.S.-licensed Tagesspiegel. It was protesting against the expensively produced British movie Oliver Twist, J. Ar thur Rank's cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested in more destructive fashion at the movie's faithful portrait of Charles Dickens' "Jew Fagin," fence and brutal master of a gang of young thieves...
...Oliver Twist had opened without fanfare in a second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
...this twist on an old theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...