Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trendy Beautiful People photographer, a dash of the occult, fear, hysteria, mystery and violence. Except to accommodate these trends, this movie's plot is improbable at best and absurd at worst. Dunaway plays a fashion photographer whose photos are in because they include images of violence and death. The twist comes when the people Dunaway "shoots" die violent deaths in about the same poses. Apparently, Dunaway has some kind of psychic link with the killer, and the race is on to see who will win out. Don't bother...
Cole Porter was just such a figure. He died almost a decade before I was born, and even through he is now something of a cult figure--one with a half-twist, too, because his following, like Judy Garland's, has the rep of being largely gay--his music has an incredible strength and resilience...
...Streets." In this simple melody, he explores the ultimate loneliness and failure of someone who, like himslelf, has sought freedom in the fast lane. Springsteen sings over an echoing piano and in the chorus--"Summer's here and the time is right, for racing in the streets"--does a twist on the innocence of an earlier time in rock. But this sight of the traps awaiting the outlaw man of the road, who always thought he was free, seems to sound the bottom of Springsteen's cars and speed theme. Where else he can go, having once exposed...
...race begins when anxious spinners scoop up the fleece almost before it is off the sheep and stampede 50 yds. to their spinning wheels in a big corral. Spectators press in as the spinners cunningly twist the fleece into yarn, then turn it over to the weavers, who throw shuttles of yarn back and forth across the warps of their looms with metronomic regularity. "More gray, more gray," barks Debbie Abbott, captain of the defending champion, team Minnie and the Hampmonters. Without missing a beat, her spinners turn to. The resulting shawl, complete and ready for auction in less than...
...Another twist in the effort to regulate DNA research is the recent proposal to make the NIH guidelines more lenient, lowering the containment restrictions on certain viruses used in the research and giving the local biohazards committees more leeway. While the proposals cannot be approved for at least a few months, sources involved in monitoring DNA legislation say the director of NIH has already given tacit consent to the proposal...