Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Please Don't Bury Me" gives a classic country cliche a new twist. Woke up. Put on my slippers. Went into the kitchen. And died. Then Prine howls "please don't bury me in that cold, cold ground/No I'd druther have'em cut me up and pass me all around." The other songs are very nearly all just as inspired. There are paeans to rural drug use--"Illicit Smile": Please don't arrest me sir, I'm smiling because I feel no pain, not because I killed somebody--like one of you Babbitts. Probably has no meaning...
...much of the other available wall surface in China. The ubiquitous presence of these uniquely Chinese ideological weapons-wall posters-testified to the relentless campaign being carried out by party leaders against Chiang Ch'ing, the widow of Mao Tse-tung. Every week brings a graphic new twist to the pictorial record of her wicked ways. As the leader of the radical "Gang of Four"* accused of attempting to seize power after Mao's death last September, Chiang Ch'ing is pictured as a scheming empress of days long past. Alternatively she is depicted as a treacherous...
...What was recovered was the bulk of the weapons system installed in the vessel, which carried three SSN5 surface-to-surface nuclear missiles. This is according to the Pentagon sources, who stick by their accounts of a far fuller retrieval than previously conceded by the CIA. Thus, after another twist of the Glomar mystery, the successes-or failures-of the mission remain confused...
Brian DePalma presents us with a character who, from all initial appearances, will require several encounters with a hanky during the course of the film, were it not for a certain twist. "I want to be normal," Carrie cries out to an unfeeling Mrs. White, but it's just not in the cards. An acute shyness alone does not separate Carrie from her classmates; evoking the image of another teenage girl of recent vintage who is "somehow different," Carrie is endowed with a power not commonly found among us mortals--the power of telekinesis. Ashtrays somersault, mirrors vibrate and shatter...
...Gees and the Ohio Players. The biggest American dance is the "bump bump," pronounced "ban ban" and featured in a prominent television commercial for stylish sweaters. Many Peruvians believe it is a Peruvian dance. Teenagers are just as ready to break into a wild twist powered by Buddy Holly's "Rock Around the Clock." The Hustle, on the other hand, has a limited future in Peru. The need which the Hustle filled in the States for a dance in which the partners touch, a dance with complicated variations on a single step, simply does not exist here. The cumbia...