Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
...celluloid rubble of Novelist Hayes's Hollywood ("to see or be seen ... to eat or be eaten") seems unreal. And his people, though carefully and competently labeled, are also carefully unexplored, as if he were afraid that the characters, if given life, would twist out of control. But Hayes is tellingly accurate about the emotions of bored bed partners who do not even 'like each other, and sometimes eloquent about the vacant longings of pretty, light-dazzled girls: "If they expected her to resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser...
...Europeans, were convinced that Konrad Adenauer had been the star of the show. Even the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, ordinarily hostile to Adenauer's Christian Democrats, hailed the old Chancellor as "the rock of Bonn ... a brilliant tactician who can credit himself with having given the conference the twist that allowed all participants to go home satisfied...
...Hudson in concrete kimonos. Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a private cemetery. In all, Al was credited with 63 corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill O'Dwyer saw fit to bring Al to trial Al disappeared and joined the Army...
...headed by Denholm Elliott (Ring Round the Moon) and Patricia Jessel (Witness for the Prosecution) exhibit all the subtlety of a burglar alarm. But however heavy-footed in style, Monique-at least for anyone unacquainted with the book or the film-moves with considerable suspense from one plot to twist to another, and offers a passable surprise at the final curtain...