Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in the days when the only way to see a movie was to go to a theater, a handful of Hollywood film studios shrewdly bought cinema chains to showcase their latest hits. Last week Japan's Sony put a new twist on this Hollywood strategy by plunging into the movie business as a way of selling its expanding video technology. In the largest-ever Japanese takeover of a U.S. company, the electronics giant (fiscal 1989 sales: $16 billion) snapped up Columbia Pictures Entertainment, agreeing to pay $3.4 billion and assume $1.2 billion in debts. Coming less than two years...
...hints that releasing Iranian assets may be the key to freeing American hostages in Lebanon. But every key has a twist...
...strong woman involved in confused love dominates the album. Etheridge's lyrics, however, more or less succeed in skirting the rocks of love cliches, and she hits home with lines like "Am I the snake inside your garden, the sugar in your tea, the knock upon your backdoor, the twist that turns your...
...THIS twist of fate is worth savoring, in part, because it happened to William Bennett. But, beyond personalities, Bennett's fate seems so quirky simply because of the way it juxtaposes elite culture with popular culture. That incongruity itself is funny, the same way the very existence of A. Bartlett Giamatti--a scholarly baseball commissioner--struck us as funny...
...odyssey of one Harvard student from a Los Angeles barrio to Cambridge and back again possibly took its final twist this summer after his conviction for a string of armed robberies...